Week 46 Review: Winterwood

From Goodreads:
From New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep comes a haunting romance perfect for fans of Practical Magic, where dark fairy tales and enchanted folklore collide after a boy, believed to be missing, emerges from the magical woods—and falls in love with the witch determined to unravel his secrets.

Be careful of the dark, dark wood…

Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.

Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it's this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman—the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago—and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he'd been missing.

But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver's presence. And it's not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn't know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own—secrets he'll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn't the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.

For as long as there have been fairy tales, we have been warned to fear what lies within the dark, dark woods and in Winterwood, New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, shows us why.

My Review:
This book was so fantastic! It's so atmospheric, and incredible to read! I enjoyed learning about the Walker family (we got excerpts from their family book, of the various Walker women, their ability and a spell to be able to do what they did, or a recipe of food that they liked. I enjoyed it so much!

This world of humans and magic and of the Wicker Woods, it's just so interesting. It makes the women of the Walker family outcasts, and it puts Nora into some pretty tough situations. The fact that the forest is awake except when there's a full moon, these were bits that I enjoyed reading and learning about so much!

This story is just so cleverly written! There's the mystery of what happened the night the storm came in, that's now trapped them on the mountain for 2 weeks. Finding Oliver in a deeper part of the forest then she'd gone before, yeah, I couldn't stop reading!

There's the tension between the two of them, both romantically, and tense because there's a boy who died the same time that Oliver went missing. And that Oliver doesn't have memories of what happened, well, I just wanted to know!

This book was fantastic, and I can't wait to read more by Shea Ernshaw!

Author: Shea Ernshaw
Read: November 14th, 2019
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a SAC 2019 Book, Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: November 5th 2019

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars