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Shivering, screaming, absolutely being scared the living daylights out of me as my entire little hairs just stood up: that’s how I felt after reading this thrilling, wild, intense novel! I cannot shut my mouth! I think I hurt my vocal cords! I cannot stop screaming! This book is everything a horror fan can dream of!

A married couple in early thirties, Harry and Sasha are the main characters and narrators of the story. Harry- veteran marine who fought in Afghanistan, early discharged to go to college where he met his wife Sasha who kept him sane, helping him to get through his self destructive stages. Now they decide to make a fresh start by owning a new house in Teton Valley, Idaho, little thousand-square-foot house on fifty-five cattle-fenced acres. On top of that, the neighbor to the north and east was a national
forest several times the size of Rhode Island.

Only one more family resides in the neighborhood which gives them enough opportunity to have their own peaceful,secluded place!

They move to their brand new place accompanied their dog: Dash who is part of their family, meeting with their older neighbors Lucy and Dan who seem like nice people! But everything changes when their nice neighbors decide to tell them the rules of surviving in their new environment!
As soon as Harry listens to what Dan tried to talk him into, he starts screaming and kicking them out of his property! Because they insist there's some kind of spirit that lives in the valley and that it takes a new form every season. It does one thing in the spring, then another in the summer. There are written rituals they have to obey for getting rid of the harm of the spirits!

Sasha, raised by hippy parents who are weed sellers, mostly raised herself, never taking any financial support from them, is more open minded to the existence of spiritual entities and she already feel connected to Lucy so she thinks otherwise, giving a try to those rituals.

As the spirits start appearing like their neighbors have told, first reluctantly and then obediently they start applying those rituals but when summer time: a spirit of naked man chasing by a bear keeps appearing at the backyard, things get escalated and this is just the beginning!

There are so many jaw dropping, freaking scary things start happening and as the mysteries keep unfolding like the story of the family who was living at their home before them and Joe: the mysterious landowner who knows the answers to deal with the spirits, you keep asking yourself how far things go from here, how things get more escalated to give you nightmares!

I can personally advise you to lock your doors, check out the windows, meditating for hours, and then hide under a blanket to resume your reading because the last parts of the book will truly shake you to the core and make you forget your own name! Be prepared to scream nonstop!

I highly definitely absolutely extremely recommend it to true horror lovers!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

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