The Trees
Buy Now
By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.
Description
There is no warning. No chance to prepare.
They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.
Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.
Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah’s forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife – and to discover just how deep the forest goes.
Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.
Book Information
Posts
First book I ever had to rage quit. It sounded real good and I liked the world, but the characters were not only bland and flat but downright stereotypes of anime characters (yes, I'm looking at you, 12 year old Japanese girl who could use a bow, live in the wild and had a fox for a pet). I usually don't feel very strongly about books I didn't like, most of the time I'm disappointed, but I haven't felt hatred as strongly as when I had to put this one down. It's the first book I've actively gotten rid of. It's been a while though, but I can't imagine I'd feel differently about it today. Can't tell why there's so many positive reviews...
Description
There is no warning. No chance to prepare.
They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.
Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.
Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah’s forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife – and to discover just how deep the forest goes.
Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.
Book Information
Posts
First book I ever had to rage quit. It sounded real good and I liked the world, but the characters were not only bland and flat but downright stereotypes of anime characters (yes, I'm looking at you, 12 year old Japanese girl who could use a bow, live in the wild and had a fox for a pet). I usually don't feel very strongly about books I didn't like, most of the time I'm disappointed, but I haven't felt hatred as strongly as when I had to put this one down. It's the first book I've actively gotten rid of. It's been a while though, but I can't imagine I'd feel differently about it today. Can't tell why there's so many positive reviews...