Hidden in the Shadows by A.D. Vancise
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
TW: Extensive, gory abuse of all kinds (explained below)
Evie Day is back in her hometown, helping her grandmother clean out her grandfather's things after his recent passing, when she stumbles across a strange photo she remembers seeing once as a child and that made her grandfather extremely upset. Now, as an adult, Evie is recognizes that it's a photo of a woman standing next to a small coffin. Determined to find out her beloved grandfather's connection to the photo, and why he would keep such an upsetting image, Evie begins to investigate. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, and into something much darker than she could ever have imagined.
The story is told through two POVs: Evie's and a mysterious person named Charlie who recounts their experience to a therapist of growing up in a mysterious "organization," which traffics in the worst kinds of abuse of dark materials.
So, yeah this book really hooked me and I was really eager to figure out what was going to happen in both sets of stories, especially as they converged. And WOW, that's all I'll say there. No more, no less. This definitely a book where the less you know going in, the better.
But one thing you SHOULD know is that there is very extensive, gory abuse, mostly involving children, both physical and sexual. Also, some animal, though not much. It's very upsetting in some cases and made me put the book down at parts. It's what took it from a five- to a four-star read for me. I understand that the book involves an organization that involved this type of abuse and that it made the investigation more meaningful, but the descriptions were very graphic. It was off-putting, and I wouldn't blame anyone who couldn't read the book because of it.
So it was a very good book, but with a caveat. Hopefully the author continues to create great storylines, but with more tact.
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Hidden in the Shadows by A.D. Vancise
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
TW: Extensive, gory abuse of all kinds (explained below)
Evie Day is back in her hometown, helping her grandmother clean out her grandfather's things after his recent passing, when she stumbles across a strange photo she remembers seeing once as a child and that made her grandfather extremely upset. Now, as an adult, Evie is recognizes that it's a photo of a woman standing next to a small coffin. Determined to find out her beloved grandfather's connection to the photo, and why he would keep such an upsetting image, Evie begins to investigate. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, and into something much darker than she could ever have imagined.
The story is told through two POVs: Evie's and a mysterious person named Charlie who recounts their experience to a therapist of growing up in a mysterious "organization," which traffics in the worst kinds of abuse of dark materials.
So, yeah this book really hooked me and I was really eager to figure out what was going to happen in both sets of stories, especially as they converged. And WOW, that's all I'll say there. No more, no less. This definitely a book where the less you know going in, the better.
But one thing you SHOULD know is that there is very extensive, gory abuse, mostly involving children, both physical and sexual. Also, some animal, though not much. It's very upsetting in some cases and made me put the book down at parts. It's what took it from a five- to a four-star read for me. I understand that the book involves an organization that involved this type of abuse and that it made the investigation more meaningful, but the descriptions were very graphic. It was off-putting, and I wouldn't blame anyone who couldn't read the book because of it.
So it was a very good book, but with a caveat. Hopefully the author continues to create great storylines, but with more tact.
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