Creepier than Small Spaces and a continuation of the story of the kids. I would definitely recommend this novel to my students and potentially even use it as a read aloud, giving them necessary background info from Small Spaces.

If you are sick of scary movies and books that just don't feel scary enough to call themselves scary, this book is for you. Though a middle grade book, it still spooked this adult enough that she couldn't read it in the dark! If you have to put a book down to be read in daylight hours, it has done its job. This story is a great follow up to Small Spaces! It keeps you reading and makes you wonder about what's coming next and how the characters will survive their spooky struggles.

What a wonderful follow-up to Small Spaces! Dead Voices has just the right amount of spookiness to keep young readers on the edge of their seats and keep adults wondering what will happen next. This would make a wonderful read-a-loud for any family or classroom.

To truly appreciate Dead Voices, make sure you read Small Spaces first. You will be glad you did!!

Thank you to NetGalley for my copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

In Dead Voices, a few months after Small Spaces, we’ re once again with Ollie, Coco, and Brian as they’re driving in a blizzard to a free weekend at a ski lodge along with Coco’s mom and Ollie’s dad. When they arrive they find they’re the only ones who made it, and the lodge is spooky, freezing, and weird. The next morning with the blizzard continuing the lodge loses power, the fire won’t stay lit, and a mysterious uninvited stranger comes to the inn, wanting to enlist the kids in helping him find ghosts. Already experiencing a few spooky encounters the night before the three of them reluctantly decide to help. As night descends things become scarier and they’re second guessing their decision. Another spooky addition to this series that I hope will continue. Great for middle schoolers.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher I was able to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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Dead Voices, the follow up to Katherine Arden’s Small Spaces, finds Ollie and her friends going to a ski lodge over winter and encountering the supernatural again. Strange things keep happening, and with the ghost of a girl calling for help Ollie, Coco and Brian find themselves knee deep in it all as they look to keep themselves safe and make it out together.
I loved, loved, loved this. These are the type of “horror” books I loved as a child. Spooky, eerie, and full of mystery. While Ollie and Brian were both key players in this book the main focus this time was Coco. She definitely shone, stepping out of her comfort zone and really stepping up to save the day. Fantastic read, I breezed through it quickly. Looking forward to seeing more of my 3 musketeers bros.

L'autunno è scivolato nella neve dell'inverno, e Ollie, Brian e Coco hanno davanti un lungo weekend sulle piste da sci, ospiti con il padre di Ollie e la mamma di Coco di una baita appena rimessa a nuovo, spersa fra le montagne.

Quale occasione migliore per allontanarsi ulteriormente dall'inquietante ricordo dell'Altro Mondo, oltre la nebbia, in cui spaventapasseri vivevano intrappolati e una creatura dagli occhi di ghiaccio proponeva sfide mortali?

Peccato che, a quanto pare, i cinque vacanzieri e i proprietari della baita non siano gli unici ospiti.

E che la baita fosse un orfanotrofio dalla storia particolarmente oscura...

Il secondo capitolo di questa godibilissima serie horror per ragazzi è una fredda, fredda avventura: e i brividi non vengono dalla neve copiosa che continua a cadere, implacabile.

Scritto magistralmente, con personaggi sempre credibili sia come singoli che nelle loro interazioni, è meno originale nell'ambientazione di Small places, ma regala comunque grossi scioponi - per dirla con un termine tecnico.

E ho apprezzato che, stavolta, la protagonista fosse Coco: forse il mio personaggio preferito, che ha ricevuto così la sua chance di mettersi in mostra - e, sopratutto, superare le sue paure. Proteggere. Crescere.

This paled in comparison to its brilliant predecessor, Small Spaces, but it’s still a cute and entertaining story.

I had very high expectations for Dead Voices because I LOVED Small Spaces, but where that was richly atmospheric and unique, this felt thin and typical of its genre.

Atmosphere is what Katherine Arden does best, and while there’s more of that here than in your typical middle grade book, the spooky, hauntingly magical feel of Small Spaces and The Bear and the Nightengale trilogy is absent here.

Some of this is just personal preference on setting (give me small town Halloween any day over a ski lodge), but this premise could have worked better than it did had the tone been similar to the first book.

Additionally, the villains came off as VERY stilted and cartoonish in this one, despite having a common thread with the well drawn, menacing scarecrows from Small Spaces.

I’m always happy to try anything Arden writes, but I hope to see a return to form in the third book in this series.