📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Book of Accidents
AUTHOR: Chuck Wendig @@chuck_wendig
Publisher: Del Rey Books @delreybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: July 20, 2021
The Review 📚 The Book of Accidents
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I’m not sure how I stumbled across this book. I had been hearing things and saw it was available on @Netgalley (thank you to them and Del Rey Books!) for an opportunity to read this.
💜 What I liked:
- Despite this book being almost 550 pages, it flew by. This was probably because of the short chapters and cliffhanger chapter endings. The world is dark and complex and while this is a horror novel, it’s only a tad gross, and the story is really beautiful.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Do you like your endings wrapped in a bow? This is not for you. While I was satisfied with the ending, I can see how others might not be.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Maddie, Nathan, and Oliver move into Nathan’s family home after his father dies.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Horror story with heart
- 2. Believable magic
- 3. Main characters to root for
- 4. Beautiful (and horrific) imagery
- 5. Love and healing
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Can you ever really go back to a place that causes you pain?
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 The Book of Accidents
A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.
And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.
This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family—and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.