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The Haunting of Steely Woods
Traci lives in fear. Attacked long ago at a rest stop, she escaped by pure chance. Or at least she thought she escaped.
Though she's moved across the country and built up all sorts of coping mechanisms, terror still strikes on a regular basis.
When another woman dies at a rest stop while Traci is there, she knows she has to go back and confront the terror of her past. But will she survive?
Though she's moved across the country and built up all sorts of coping mechanisms, terror still strikes on a regular basis.
When another woman dies at a rest stop while Traci is there, she knows she has to go back and confront the terror of her past. But will she survive?
221 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2021
10 people want to read
About the author
Bonnie Elizabeth
111 books14 followersBonnie Elizabeth wrote her first story when she was 8 years old. Fortunately, that story has long since been lost. Since that time she has worked a variety of jobs including veterinary receptionist, library assistant, bookstore clerk, cemetery administrator and as an acupuncturist.
In addition to writing novels, she has written extensively about acupuncture. She writes acupuncture books at Bonnie Koenig, LAc. She also blogs as her cat Chey as Chey at mysiamese.com.
You can find her books at her publisher's website, MyBigFatOrangeCat.com or at her own site, BonnieElizabeth.com
In addition to writing novels, she has written extensively about acupuncture. She writes acupuncture books at Bonnie Koenig, LAc. She also blogs as her cat Chey as Chey at mysiamese.com.
You can find her books at her publisher's website, MyBigFatOrangeCat.com or at her own site, BonnieElizabeth.com
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February 13, 2023
It has some spoilers, but the book is garbage, so I don’t see the point in avoiding it. In this review, I will put a clear part of some minor spoilers.
This book had a solid start, and at one point it flopped. It has a likable character, self-aware of the ghosthunting she experiences, from a traumatic event. It has a parallel story from another timeline. We can hint at the start that those timelines will come together at one time.
And then there are other characters. They are used at one point of the book, and then almost completely forgotten at other. And at the last part of the book we are having enter one more supporting character, that influences the final battle.
In the first half of the book, the building of the story and characters are ok, but the second part is garbage.
And worst of all is this paranormal ghost. So the main character is self-aware of everything, it carries trauma throughout her whole life from ghost encounters. More than two decades later it got used to life with hunting.
SPOILER ALERT
Ok, so the main protagonist, after trauma with a ghost encounter, cannot live an everyday life. She mentions that after an attack she experienced (I won't say where), from time to time, she encounters other attacks. And that influences not only her but people close to her. It was never explained why was that. So the main protagonist flees to another city hundreds of miles away from where she was hunted, on another side of the Mississippi river (because she heard that ghosts cannot cross water ). And even there she has encounters sometimes!?. And still, there is no explanation for why.
And worst of all is an actual new encounter with the ghost, a young girl raped and killed in the wood. And they talk, and this ghost is so pissed her sister sold her for money (and one of her customers killed her at the end), so in redemption, she kills young females.
I cannot tell you how stupid is that. And her sister, whom she hates most, and the guy who killed her, lived their lives and died from natural causes. So there is no explanation for why this ghost didn’t kill the sister who sold her, or the man who killed her, instead, she killed innocent girls.
And I won't even tell you the endgame in this, because it is also painfully stupid.
Only because it's easy to read, and because it has a good start and development I will give it 2 stars. This is not how a published author should end something potentially good. It used every cliche in the book, and it got only worse as I was going to the end.
This book had a solid start, and at one point it flopped. It has a likable character, self-aware of the ghosthunting she experiences, from a traumatic event. It has a parallel story from another timeline. We can hint at the start that those timelines will come together at one time.
And then there are other characters. They are used at one point of the book, and then almost completely forgotten at other. And at the last part of the book we are having enter one more supporting character, that influences the final battle.
In the first half of the book, the building of the story and characters are ok, but the second part is garbage.
And worst of all is this paranormal ghost. So the main character is self-aware of everything, it carries trauma throughout her whole life from ghost encounters. More than two decades later it got used to life with hunting.
SPOILER ALERT
Ok, so the main protagonist, after trauma with a ghost encounter, cannot live an everyday life. She mentions that after an attack she experienced (I won't say where), from time to time, she encounters other attacks. And that influences not only her but people close to her. It was never explained why was that. So the main protagonist flees to another city hundreds of miles away from where she was hunted, on another side of the Mississippi river (because she heard that ghosts cannot cross water ). And even there she has encounters sometimes!?. And still, there is no explanation for why.
And worst of all is an actual new encounter with the ghost, a young girl raped and killed in the wood. And they talk, and this ghost is so pissed her sister sold her for money (and one of her customers killed her at the end), so in redemption, she kills young females.
I cannot tell you how stupid is that. And her sister, whom she hates most, and the guy who killed her, lived their lives and died from natural causes. So there is no explanation for why this ghost didn’t kill the sister who sold her, or the man who killed her, instead, she killed innocent girls.
And I won't even tell you the endgame in this, because it is also painfully stupid.
Only because it's easy to read, and because it has a good start and development I will give it 2 stars. This is not how a published author should end something potentially good. It used every cliche in the book, and it got only worse as I was going to the end.
August 28, 2022
I usually never pay much attention to the prose and writing style in a book and tend to focus more on the plot and character development but here it was very disconcerting, to say the least. It took me more time to get through the first few chapters than it did to get through the rest of the book. The ramblings of the MC are almost impossible to get through, although the pace does pickup after a few chapters. The meat of the plot, however, (once you do get to it) is also pedestrian and nothing exciting. I got this in my recommended but goodreads seems behind the eight ball in this regard many times.
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