📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Winter People
AUTHOR: Jennifer McMahon @jennifermcmahonwrites
Publisher: DoubleDay
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: February 11, 2014
The Review 📚 The Winter People
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I really enjoyed the Drowning Kind and wanted to read more of Jennifer McMahon’s backlist.
💜 What I liked:
- This book definitely has a creepy vibe and was perfect to read this time of year. The story is very mysterious as it bounces between diary entries of Sara and Martin, as well as the present day of Ruthie and Katharine. The mystery was fun to put together as you read also.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Drowning Kind was very similar to this book in how it was told from present and past perspective. However, it still works.
🚦 My face at the end: 😳
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Snowy Old House
- 2. Spooky Atmosphere
- 3. Ghosts
- 4. Mysterious Disappearances
- 5. Erie Ending
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Ruthie’s mother goes missing and the search leads them to a creepy history of the house.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Winter People
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.