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The Twisted Tree : An Amazon Kindle Bestseller: 'A creepy and evocative fantasy' The Sunday Times
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SEQUEL OUT NOW: The Crooked Mask
Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fell from the tree at her grandma's cabin and became blind in one eye.
Determined to understand her strange ability, Martha sets off to visit her grandmother, Mormor - only to discover Mormor is dead, a peculiar boy is in her cabin and a terrifying creature is on the loose.
Then the spinning wheel starts creaking, books move around and terror creeps in . . .
Set in the remote snows of contemporary Norway, THE TWISTED TREE is a ghost story that twists and turns - and never takes you quite where you'd expect.
Praise for The Twisted Tree
A creepy and evocative fantasy likely to make readers wary of the shadows in the corner of an eye, The Sunday Times
Rattles along with proper page-turning pace, The Daily Express
Creepy and amazing, MTV UK
Creates an atmosphere of Stephen King intensity, The Irish Examiner
A terrific read - twisty and scary and instantly gripping, Waterstones (Exeter Roman Gate)
A ghost story that will get under the skin of the most hardened reader, Starburst Magazine
The perfect book for cold and wintry nights, prepare to be chilled to your very bones, Culturefly
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Product details
- Paperback | 272 pages
- 129 x 198 x 20mm | 237g
- 10 Jan 2019
- Hot Key Books
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 9781471407765
- 46,008
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The Crooked Mask (sequel to The Twisted Tree)
21 Jan 2021
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Immediately, The Twisted Tree became a favourite, and I was recommending it to anyone who would listen, and can we just talk about those covers...
There's just something about the simplicity of it that is so beautiful to me. And the small bits of subtle gold foiling on the cover of The Crooked Mask that you just catch in certain lights really brings out that element of magic that's in the book for me (a photo cannot do it justice).
I know, you're probably thinking pft yeah okay, a lot of book covers use foil Hope, and you're correct. But there is just something about this one. There aren't large sections of foil, just tiny lines of it around the cover, so subtly that unless you catch it in just the right light you might not see them. The black and deep yellow on the cover give me that sense of darkness and horror, and the little bits of gold give me the magic. You might think I'm looking way too much into it, but what can I say, I'm an English Lit student, reading into things is what I do! And besides, covers are important! In my opinion, it is the cover, not the blurb, that is the first impression someone gets when they pick up your book. The cover needs to say something, and this one certainly does.
Anyway, now I've rambled about the covers, on to the actual review...
'Horror' as a book genre has never gripped me, and I know exactly why. It's because it never seems to scare me. Fear is one emotion that a book has just never managed to make me feel, and it's not that I'm not easily scared, because I am. I love a good horror movie as much as the next person, but you best believe I'm going to be hiding behind a pillow the entire time. But books just don't make me feel the same sort of fear, and if I'm just not going to read a horror that doesn't scare me. Then I read The Twisted Tree. The first book to make me feel fear. I was scared - but not in a cover my face, something is going to jump out at me kind of scared, but a I can feel this in the pit of my stomach kind of scared. FINALLY! * Feeling Hopeful *
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