Rift by Steven James
Reviewed by Sandra Merville Hart
Rift: Mind the Thin Places
Rift Trilogy, Book 1
Seventeen-year-old Sahara O’Shaugnessy is still reeling from her father’s death seven months later. She blames herself for his accident. Not only that, but her mother has gone off the deep end and sent Sahara to live with her grandmother in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee.
Sahara’s active imagination, fueled by her grandmother’s storytelling, leads her to write fairy tales. Not only that, she tells some grisly tales she’s heard to her friends. Telling fairy tales that should never be shared sets a terrifying chain of events in motion.
James is a master storyteller. This YA Suspense novel gripped me from the first page, the first sentence.
Spine-chilling experiences mix with dangerous ghostly lore. Some violent fairy tales are horrifying.
It ends on a cliffhanger that propels readers toward the next book.
The entire story is a thrilling epic of unexpected and unexplainable events that kept me on the edge of my seat.
An unforgettable story.
