Description
House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - a YA supernatural thriller about four disappearances in a town haunted by a dark magical history - and one girl's search for the truth.
A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . .
Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who's alive?
One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend- a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . .
As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep.
Review
Told through the eyes of Nora, beginning with a strange text from her ex-best friend Becca on a cold Saturday night. She answers Becca’s call because even though they haven’t spoken for three months. Becca lost both her Mum and Dad, and now lives with her wicked step-mother, so Nora still cares.
But not only is Becca not home, but Nora strangely passes out on Becca’s back porch where she should have frozen to death. She doesn’t but instead wakes in the morning sure that something strange has happened, and she quickly learns that Becca has simply vanished. Three other people, a teacher and two other teenagers have also disappeared.
It turns out that this small town is full of secrets, and with the cryptic message Nora received on the day that Becca disappeared and other strange clues she has got since, Nora is determined to uncover the truth. Becca also ensured that her new friend, the dreamy and quiet James, is placed in Nora’s path, and together they want answers.
Nora slowly uncovers Becca’s dark side and starts to believe that she could be involved in the whole evil tale. They discover hidden secrets around previous murders that took place in the town years ago. Could the seemingly harmless children’s Goddess game that everyone played when they were younger really be something far more sinister? Could it be the telling of the goddess of revenge tale?
This is a captivating and scary book, that is not too scary. Sure, bad things happen but only to bad people! A terrific tale of revenge, demonic possession, and facing evil, this novel will best suit readers 14 and older.
