The Ravening

I didn't love this one quite as much as I did Daniel Church's previous book (or indeed some of the books published under the author's real name). The ensemble horror of The Hollows is replaced by a much tighter focus on just one character, and Church does a good job of getting into her head and explicating her past trauma, her fearfulness and resilience, and the walls she needs to break down. She's a compelling character, and her supernatural antagonist is a memorable creation, one that you can almost smell off the page. It's the human bad guys that let me down a little bit, as I just didn't believe that their schemes, especially the first one, could ever work - when it was outlined, my reaction was, oh come on, and what about..... The suspension of disbelief was wobbling. Yes, I was completely on board with an ancient evil that's twenty feet high and made of bones, but a villainous toff was just pushing it too far for me. Go figure.

This book gave me the full blown CREEPS!!!!

Jenna's mother disappeared when Jenna was a teen and she knows what she heard.... That night never left Jenna.

Present day, Jenna is a mess. She is pregnant with a baby she doesn't want but as she goes to the clinic she is kidnapped!

Things are not what it seems and there is something lurking that is not human..

The creature is CHILLING!! Its basically a horror/thriller twisty ride that you can feel breathing down your neck!

It could have been a bit shorter. That's my only issue but I love the writing style and I was fully absorbed into this book!

4.5 stars