📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Dark Roads
AUTHOR: Chevy Stevens @chevystevens
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press @stmartinspress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 + 🐢
Published: August 3, 2021
The Review 📚 Dark Roads
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- There was a lot of pre-release buzz for this. Since this was a new to me author, I wanted to experience one of her books for myself.
💜 What I liked:
- The story was told following 2 girls: one who disappeared and one who was searching for clues regarding her sister’s murder. The idea was very intense and the ending was surprising.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The pacing was quite off for me. This is probably something that isn’t an issue for others, because this author is quite popular. But for me it just didn’t flow as quickly as I expected. There were a lot of descriptions which I liked, but there were some things that left me wondering as well.
🚦 My face at the end: 🐺 (IYKYK)
💭 3 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Intense situations and action scenes
- 2. Sinister characters
- 3. Dog with personality!
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Hailey stages her disappearance after dealing with a perverse guardian situation as Beth comes to town to look for clues regarding the death of her sister.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 Dark Roads
The acclaimed and beloved author of Still Missing is back with her most breathtaking thriller yet.
The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has stalked the highway has ever been brought to justice.
Hailey McBride calls Cold Creek home. Her father taught her to respect nature, how to live and survive off the land, and to never travel the highway alone. Now he’s gone, leaving her a teenage orphan in the care of her aunt whose police officer husband uses his badge as a means to bully and control Hailey. Overwhelmed by grief and forbidden to work, socialize, or date, Hailey vanishes into the mountainous terrain, hoping everyone will believe she’s left town. Rumors spread that she was taken by the highway killer—who’s claimed another victim over the summer.
One year later, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek, where her sister Amber lived—and where she was murdered. Estranged from her parents and seeking closure, Beth takes a waitressing job at the local diner, just as Amber did, desperate to understand what happened to her and why. But Beth’s search for answers puts a target on her back—and threatens to reveal the truth behind Hailey’s disappearance…