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Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #9
Demon Tree
After the death of her parents, Maggie comes to live in the small town of Wells and begins to suspect that it is haunted by an evil spirit.
- GenresHorrorYoung Adult
153 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 31, 1983
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March 2, 2022
Oooh! This one was a fun one. And that cover, LMAOO 🙈💀
So our sweet protag Maggie's parents have perished in a car crash and she is sent to live with her creepy grandparents in her dad's old hometown. The grandparents are controlling and mean and odd- and hey, come to think of it-the whole damn town is kinda nuts too. Weird shit is happening in this town, and no-one wants to talk about it. People are driven mad. driven to suicide, and it even affects all of the dogs in town, turning them into rabid Cujo beasts that must be put down 😱
I won't go into spoilery details about the cursed town and the secrets that it holds, but it was a wild ride 😅 Great descriptive writing that felt cinematic...I wish this had been a movie!
A few random observations and notes:
- Demons, spirits and ghosts, oh my!! There are "evil forces" here at play and I AM HERE FOR IT 😂😱
- Gross-out descriptions of "warm, steamy organs", "the stench of fetid flesh", and "puckered flesh eaten away", EWWWW!!! GNAR TOWN!!
- A dramatic showdown and the ending felt satisfying and yet, a bit rushed. The book would've benefited from an Epilogue 😩😩
4 out of 5 circles around the DEMON TREE, hand in hand with the townsfolk, chanting and wailing while maniacal laughter from the gross demon ghost permeates the fog drenched night. Hang on tight to your neighbor...the demon is coming for youuu 💀💀💀
So our sweet protag Maggie's parents have perished in a car crash and she is sent to live with her creepy grandparents in her dad's old hometown. The grandparents are controlling and mean and odd- and hey, come to think of it-the whole damn town is kinda nuts too. Weird shit is happening in this town, and no-one wants to talk about it. People are driven mad. driven to suicide, and it even affects all of the dogs in town, turning them into rabid Cujo beasts that must be put down 😱
I won't go into spoilery details about the cursed town and the secrets that it holds, but it was a wild ride 😅 Great descriptive writing that felt cinematic...I wish this had been a movie!
A few random observations and notes:
- Demons, spirits and ghosts, oh my!! There are "evil forces" here at play and I AM HERE FOR IT 😂😱
- Gross-out descriptions of "warm, steamy organs", "the stench of fetid flesh", and "puckered flesh eaten away", EWWWW!!! GNAR TOWN!!
- A dramatic showdown and the ending felt satisfying and yet, a bit rushed. The book would've benefited from an Epilogue 😩😩
4 out of 5 circles around the DEMON TREE, hand in hand with the townsfolk, chanting and wailing while maniacal laughter from the gross demon ghost permeates the fog drenched night. Hang on tight to your neighbor...the demon is coming for youuu 💀💀💀
October 19, 2023
Yeah, this whole series is kinda kitschy, and it's hard to read books that were written for teens that were published nearly forty years ago, but this one was better than I expected. Daniel is a better writer than I've encountered in this series thus far, and even if the plot was a little thin (and abruptly ended), the characters and tension was enough to keep me going. It's not bad for a 150-page jaunt.
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