Season of Fear

Season of Fear

Hardback
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Night of the Witch meets The Handmaid's Tale in this queer Gothic horror debut set against the monstrous Bavarian forest of Hexenwald. 
  In the Bavarian village of Heulensee, women feed their terror to an ancient Saint of Fear. In return, it protects them from the monsters of the Hexenwald, the haunted forest on their doorstep. Born unfearing, Ilse Odenwald has felt like an outsider all her life. When the Saint discovers Ilse’s divergence, it levels a threat: she must find her fear, or the Saint will devour her sister, Dorothea—the only person who loves Ilse unconditionally.   
Unwilling to lose Thea, Ilse enters the Hexenwald. She hopes that its horrors will finally unleash her fear and, in turn, save her sister. But during her quest Ilse inadvertently uncovers something far more sinister than the monsters that hunt her: a darkness within herself. As the forest closes in, Ilse’s hopes for a normal future begin to slip away, as well as the chance to save not just Thea, but all women in Heulensee.

Bewitching and timely, this gripping debut novel is a dark fairy tale about the fate of girls and women in a world grown accustomed to sacrificing them.

★“Hauntingly poetic and monstrously romantic.”—Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
 
★"A dark and dreadful tour de force of a debut! Exquisitely beautiful and horrific."—Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child

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Format
Hardback
Pages
352
Price
19.00 €

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Blood spills from veins, skin starts to crack Ignore the forest; turn back, turn back

Anders als erwartet aber trotzdem ziemlich interessant und gut Dafür, dass ich ein Jugendbuch erwartet habe, war die Story doch verhältnismäßig blutig und explizit geschrieben. Die Story an sich war vom Konzept her total interessant. Die Charaktere waren alle recht liebenswert, aber ich denke die Geschichte hätte vielleicht etwas umfangreicher geschrieben werden müssen um besser mit den Figuren mitfühlen zu können. Was ich leider nicht so ganz ernst nehmen konnte, waren die vereinzelt eingeworfenen deutschen Wörter, damit vermutlich der bayerische Aspekt der Story mehr herausstechen soll. Wenn mich mitten im englischen Text plötzlich das Wort Knödel anspringt, bin ich aber nicht so ganz überzeugt 🤣 Trotzdem haben mich die Ereignisse zum Ende hin etwas emotional mitgenommen und teilweise auch etwas deprimiert 😅 PS. Auf den Epilog hätte ich verzichten können 😜

Blood spills from veins, skin starts to crack
Ignore the forest; turn back, turn back

It pains me to stop reading Season of Fear although I’m over half way through. The Plottwist at about the 50% mark is what soured this book for me. I wasn’t really gripped by it to begin with and given the fact that I could be reading other books I might enjoy more I’m dnfing this one.

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