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The Wicker Witch
A fast-paced story of survival, terror, family, and friendship.
The people of Wicker thought the mountain belonged to them—purchased with blood, sweat, and resilience. They forgot the deal their ancestors made. They forgot that their mountain belonged to something ancient, powerful, and hungry.
Charlotte Crowe and Rebecca Greenleigh grew up as best friends on the mountain, descendants of the original settlers of Wicker and inheritors of a terrible secret. They expected to grow old on their mountain. They did not expect the return of the wolves, the bone chimes appearing overnight in the trees, or their neighbors turning on one another. In a matter of days, everything they thought they knew is flipped upside down and they find themselves trapped in a place they once called home playing a dangerous game with a creature older than the mountain itself.
The people of Wicker thought the mountain belonged to them—purchased with blood, sweat, and resilience. They forgot the deal their ancestors made. They forgot that their mountain belonged to something ancient, powerful, and hungry.
Charlotte Crowe and Rebecca Greenleigh grew up as best friends on the mountain, descendants of the original settlers of Wicker and inheritors of a terrible secret. They expected to grow old on their mountain. They did not expect the return of the wolves, the bone chimes appearing overnight in the trees, or their neighbors turning on one another. In a matter of days, everything they thought they knew is flipped upside down and they find themselves trapped in a place they once called home playing a dangerous game with a creature older than the mountain itself.
- GenresHorror
392 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2024
3 people are currently reading
25 people want to read
About the author
Cheryl Low
6 books50 followersCheryl Low might be a primeval entity, born from the darkness of the universe and vacationing on a forgotten island where she eats coconuts and the souls of stranded sailors.
…Or she might be a mundane human with a deep love of all things sugary, soap opera slaps, and horror flicks.
Find out by following her on social media @cherylwlow or check her webpage, cheryllow.com. The answer might surprise you! But it probably won’t.
…Or she might be a mundane human with a deep love of all things sugary, soap opera slaps, and horror flicks.
Find out by following her on social media @cherylwlow or check her webpage, cheryllow.com. The answer might surprise you! But it probably won’t.
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April 23, 2024
This is an intense supernatural novel that really pulls you in and delivers the scares.
Wicker is a very small town on a mountain. The people there have lived there for generations, taking pride in being somewhat isolated and looking after each other.
Charlotte Crowe and Rebecca Greenleigh are best friends who both carry on their family legacy. But there's something much older living on that mountain. And when it decides the mountain belongs to itself, it will stop at nothing to make sure no living soul makes it off the mountain.
Set in modern day and starting with a mudslide that causes havoc, unnatural things begin to take place. People go missing, bodies are found mutilated, and wind chimes made of bones and blood are found hanging from trees. And then there's the wolves...
This novel doesn't take long to lead us straightway into the carnage. This town has history and legends and as we learn more about these the events get ever increasingly more terrifying and brutal.
I absolutely loved being immersed in this town. The characters are well written and each of them reveal themselves little by little, sometimes in horrific ways.
The "thing" that wants them all to suffer is horrifying. There's no reasoning with it and it can whisper dark thoughts to people, causing them to do violent things.
Charlotte and Rebecca struggle to save their town but how do you fight against something ancient and evil with no limits?
If you like small town supernatural horror that means business and will keep you reading long into the night, this is a book you don't want to miss. I highly recommend it.
I received an ARC of this book through the publisher with no consideration. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.
Wicker is a very small town on a mountain. The people there have lived there for generations, taking pride in being somewhat isolated and looking after each other.
Charlotte Crowe and Rebecca Greenleigh are best friends who both carry on their family legacy. But there's something much older living on that mountain. And when it decides the mountain belongs to itself, it will stop at nothing to make sure no living soul makes it off the mountain.
Set in modern day and starting with a mudslide that causes havoc, unnatural things begin to take place. People go missing, bodies are found mutilated, and wind chimes made of bones and blood are found hanging from trees. And then there's the wolves...
This novel doesn't take long to lead us straightway into the carnage. This town has history and legends and as we learn more about these the events get ever increasingly more terrifying and brutal.
I absolutely loved being immersed in this town. The characters are well written and each of them reveal themselves little by little, sometimes in horrific ways.
The "thing" that wants them all to suffer is horrifying. There's no reasoning with it and it can whisper dark thoughts to people, causing them to do violent things.
Charlotte and Rebecca struggle to save their town but how do you fight against something ancient and evil with no limits?
If you like small town supernatural horror that means business and will keep you reading long into the night, this is a book you don't want to miss. I highly recommend it.
I received an ARC of this book through the publisher with no consideration. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.
April 30, 2024
Charlotte Crowe and best friend Rebecca Greenleigh were born and raised on the mountain, their ancestors having carved out an existence and built the town of Wicker within its stony embrace.
There had been a dreadful price to be paid all those generations ago. A price whose gruesome details had been all but forgotten. A price which hadn’t been kept up and was now overdue. An evil has now begun to walk the mountain. A relentlessly savage darkness which calls the mountain its own. An evil which has no interest in sharing what it claims to have created.
Charlotte and Rebecca are in for the battle of their lives if they are to have any hope of saving their loved ones, themselves or their beloved mountain home. How can they have any hope of defeating the seemingly invulnerable.
The characters are so well written they might well be living and breathing. Their families, friends and the town folk all come into play. More and more of them is revealed every time they pass through the pages, fighting to survive and escape the grasp of the Wicker Witch.
There is not one wasted word in this enthralling tale, each and every one feeding into a well-plotted culmination of adrenaline and terror.
Be prepared! This novel will bring a torrent of emotions while the tale hurtles along at harrowing speed, weaving through sunlit glades and the darkest of forest shadows towards an unanticipated end.
Rarely do I give 5 stars, but this is definitely one of the deserving. I could NOT put it down!
There had been a dreadful price to be paid all those generations ago. A price whose gruesome details had been all but forgotten. A price which hadn’t been kept up and was now overdue. An evil has now begun to walk the mountain. A relentlessly savage darkness which calls the mountain its own. An evil which has no interest in sharing what it claims to have created.
Charlotte and Rebecca are in for the battle of their lives if they are to have any hope of saving their loved ones, themselves or their beloved mountain home. How can they have any hope of defeating the seemingly invulnerable.
The characters are so well written they might well be living and breathing. Their families, friends and the town folk all come into play. More and more of them is revealed every time they pass through the pages, fighting to survive and escape the grasp of the Wicker Witch.
There is not one wasted word in this enthralling tale, each and every one feeding into a well-plotted culmination of adrenaline and terror.
Be prepared! This novel will bring a torrent of emotions while the tale hurtles along at harrowing speed, weaving through sunlit glades and the darkest of forest shadows towards an unanticipated end.
Rarely do I give 5 stars, but this is definitely one of the deserving. I could NOT put it down!
May 7, 2024
Release May 7
Release May 7.
THE WICKER WITCH by Cheryl Low is Horror exactly the way I prefer it, and therefore a perfect novel for me. Totally engrossing from Page One on to the end, disturbing my sleep, interrupting my thoughts...perfect. Yes, extreme Horror, gory, but an exquisite interweaving of Implacable Supernatural Evil; human cupidity, pride, and manifest destiny; and human existential angst in the face of overwhelming remorse and inability to alter "reality." And what a reality the inhabitants of the quiet little village of Wicker endure: isolated, tucked at the foot of Mount Bell, thinking their lives are so preferable to the community down below, across the river.
Until: the ancient evil with whom Ancestors four centuries ago brokered an ungodly pact, comes calling for retribution.
Release May 7.
THE WICKER WITCH by Cheryl Low is Horror exactly the way I prefer it, and therefore a perfect novel for me. Totally engrossing from Page One on to the end, disturbing my sleep, interrupting my thoughts...perfect. Yes, extreme Horror, gory, but an exquisite interweaving of Implacable Supernatural Evil; human cupidity, pride, and manifest destiny; and human existential angst in the face of overwhelming remorse and inability to alter "reality." And what a reality the inhabitants of the quiet little village of Wicker endure: isolated, tucked at the foot of Mount Bell, thinking their lives are so preferable to the community down below, across the river.
Until: the ancient evil with whom Ancestors four centuries ago brokered an ungodly pact, comes calling for retribution.
June 14, 2024
Thrilling mountain horror
I really enjoyed this book and would most definitely recommend it. It was suspenseful and had a good pace throughout. There are so many creepy scenes and the author really took advantage of the setting for the thrilling factor. Low really has a way of writing capturing characters and making us as readers hooked to find out how it all will end. Loved it!
I really enjoyed this book and would most definitely recommend it. It was suspenseful and had a good pace throughout. There are so many creepy scenes and the author really took advantage of the setting for the thrilling factor. Low really has a way of writing capturing characters and making us as readers hooked to find out how it all will end. Loved it!
October 15, 2025
I did enjoy most of this book but it got, for lack of a better word, messy. Some good story ideas and good scares were there but inserted haphazard.
Too much repetition about the families living on the mountain and their place there, one character threw up at the least little provocation, lots of guns, treating one young male character as if he was a very little boy when based on the timeline, he had to be a teenager, empty caskets but no further mention of what might have happened to the bodies supposed to be in them, etc.
The story just needed a little better focus.
Too much repetition about the families living on the mountain and their place there, one character threw up at the least little provocation, lots of guns, treating one young male character as if he was a very little boy when based on the timeline, he had to be a teenager, empty caskets but no further mention of what might have happened to the bodies supposed to be in them, etc.
The story just needed a little better focus.
May 9, 2024
Thrilling, spine tingling and a wicked read. The Wicker Witch has lived there for years but occasionally she craves more.
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