Hi, there! I'm Stephanie Perkins, and I'm a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. My next novel is called Overdue, and it's a sweet and swoony romance for adults that will be published on October 7, 2025. I'm also the author of three YA romance novels, Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After, as well as two YA horror novels, There's Someone Inside Your House, which was adapted into a film for Netflix, and The Woods Are Always Watching. I also edited (and contributed a short story to) a romantic holiday anthology called My True Love Gave to Me and its companion anthology Summer Days and Summer Nights.
"There's someone inside your house" was pretty good. I read it fast, it was suspenseful for the most part. "The woods are always watching" was terrible. It was very slow, the climax started getting pretty good after finally getting to something good 150 pages in, then ended very quick, dumb and unfinished.
Wow, for a YA compilation, both stories tacked very adult situations: gritty deaths, rough language, and high intensity drama. Both tomes will leave you with haunted thoughts/reflections - for fans of Natasha Preston, you should give this novel a well deserved read.