![]() Superstition and the belief in the power of omens feature prominently in the book. ![]() Whether her visions are merely cabin fever or something else isn’t revealed, but this ‘episode’ is something which the family don’t talk about and is the elephant in the room. In the midst of all this stress, Amanda flips out, claiming to see the Devil after which she struggles to grasp onto reality. There is a second narrative which flicks back to the previous year when there was a severe snowstorm, stranded the family in their home, while their mother became ill while heavily pregnant. The reader quickly twigs that the infant has a disability, but what this disability is, is not revealed until much later in the story. She is secretly having an affair with a post delivery boy and early in the novel realises she is pregnant. Written in the first person, with a very authentic 16-year-old female narrator, who lives with her parents and four younger siblings in a remote cabin near the bottom of a mountain. ![]() ![]() This wickedly well-crafted chiller had more creeps in it than many adult horror novels I have read and has an edginess you rarely find in horror aimed at kids. ![]()
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