Fearscape Written by Simon Holt Book Review by Miranda Moses (Fraser) ISBN: 978-0-316-03569-9 Once again I am wondering who this fantastic author is and why he hasn't written anything else. I'm starting to wonder if these aren't published under a pseudonym... But time will tell. After all, Fearscape was only published in 2010. It is very possible he is writing other books and dealing with new publishers. There's also a fan theory that there are multiple author's working on this book. I've seen people saying that they think this because some chapters are amazing and others are just okay... As an author myself, that's just kind of how it is. There are always going to be filler chapters to get you to the next important part. So I don't know how much I believe that idea. If anyone can track him down though, that'd be amazing, lol. But let's get into the world of The Devouring series. Fearscape is the third book and supposed final book in The Devouring series. Now I want to do a recap both for previous readers and new ones deciding if this series interests them or not. In the first novel, The Devouring, we meet our main characters. They are Regina Halloway, her baby brother Henry, and her best friend Aaron. They live in your typical small town (like every high school novel ever). One day a mysterious journal comes into the bookstore where Reggie works and she brings it home to read. She was fascinated by this unpublished horror that she couldn't find any information on anywhere. Her and her best friend decide to attempt the ritual at the beginning of the story, expecting it to be nothing more than a Bloody Mary type hoax. You know, something silly to do on 'Sorry Night'. In the days to come they discover that they unleashed a creature into her home that night. The Vour is a smokey non-physical being who enters a person's body and takes over their lives. These creatures feed on fear and pain- making an 8 year old little boy the perfect Target. Reggie's life is already extremely chaotic but now she must find out what these creatures truly are, how to stop them, and if she can save her brother and her family before it's too late. In trying to save her brother, Reggie discovers that she has a special power and can take on Vours inside the minds of their victims. In a place she calls the Fearscape. These Fearscapes are really cool because they're like a retro mario video game where you just keep running straight through levels until you die. Only these levels are filled with the victims worst fears, starting small and building up. The longer they've been a victim of the Vour the larger and harder they are to get through. (I'm mostly glossing over book two, because, again, trying to be vague, but I will include links to my previous reviews if you're that curious.) So here we are in book three. That's what a lot of this book is. It's Reggie taking on Fearscapes and learning some terrible truths about the Vours and their plans for humanity. Reggie stands on a precipice of either being the greatest weapon against the Vours or their greatest strength against humanity. The clock is ticking with less then a month from the next Sorry Night. Reggie and her friends are in the fight of the lives surrounded by Vours and Tracers alike. This book is also very fast paced like the previous two. What I will say, is from my memory, this novel is more graphic than the previous two. I felt like there were a lot more gory details and I just wanted to warn people about that. It was nothing too bad... but I love horror and true crime so maybe I'm not the best judge of that. I read 200 pages of this book in one night and then realized it was 7am and I had yet to sleep. So believe me when I say it is very hard to put down. There are A LOT of plot twists and jaw dropping moments. I just needed to make sense of it and the only way to do that was to get through the book. I highly recommend The Devouring series. This had a very satisfactory ending, but also one where I could see spin offs or even additional novels being published one day. It's rare that an ending is so satisfactory, so once again big kudos to Holt. Whoever you may be. Read on my fellow book worms! May we one day have Belle's library. And as always links to the author's pages can be found down below. And as I stated earlier here are the links to my other reviews (in order).the-devouring.html and then soulstice.html
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