THEY CAME LOOKING FOR ANSWERS
A group of explorers arrive in the remote town of Birchlake, Northern California, to investigate the appearance of mysterious walls.
WHAT THEY FOUND WERE QUESTIONS
A teenage girl has disappeared without a trace.
FOR NOT EVERYONE IS AS THEY SEEM
Soon it becomes clear that the last two events may be connected in the most terrifying way. Because sometimes the walls we build upend up closing in on us....
MY REVIEW
Difficult to know where to start with this review. I wasn’t sure what I expected from the book after reading the synopsis. I hadn’t realised that this was the second book involving the intrepid explorers. The first book is called The Anomaly. But to be honest that really didn’t matter as this book as a stand alone was very good. There were a couple of references to a previous adventure but that was only near the beginning of the story and I didn’t feel I really needed to have read it before reading this one as it is a totally separate story.
Nolan, Ken, Pierre and Molly are You Tubers looking for conspiracy theories to explore. Nolan comes up with the idea of looking into The Berkeley Walls Mystery which is about walls that were built many years ago no one is clear who or why they were built but they are ancient and seem to be in random places not keeping anything in or out but are just there across parts of Northern California.
Kristie is Nolan’s ex wife she has gone to small town Birchlake in Northern California to look into the disappearance of a young girl Alaina. Which by coincidence just happens to be in the area that Nolan has taken the team unbeknownst to them initially. The wall idea doesn’t seem to pan out into a story the intrepid four want to do so they end up in a motel in Birchlake. But there things start to get very weird and interesting. Strange things start happening to Kristie and the intrepid four. Saying much more would be a plot spoiler but the walls do come into the story. So think witch craft, supernatural, horror because I’m really not sure which genre I would put this in possibly all of them.
I love Steven King novels and as this was written on the front cover that sort of drew me in to it. I’m not sure I would have normally been drawn to this. But I am so glad I picked it. I absolutely loved it. Initially the walls bit had me sat there wondering what I was reading but I kept going and was then engrossed with the things going bump in the night. I actually chuckled loudly at a couple of the antics and conversations then in the next minute I was holding my breath not knowing what was coming next.
A great read.
THE AUTHOR
Michael Rutger is a screenwriter whose work has been optioned by major Hollywood studios. He lives in California with his wife and son.
Thank you to #netgalley #Zaffre #MichaelRutger for an ARC of this book all opinions are my own and honest.
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