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[close] Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavic
4★

The Verner family lives on a mountain side and their isolated family dynamic and extreme piety makes them feel like a bizarre and twisted Little House on the Prairie. They were trapped in their house during a bad winter, clinging to their lives and their sanity, while the flu-stricken mother gives birth to a deaf and blind baby. Something happened to Amanda that winter, and it’s unclear if the isolation got to her head or if she truly saw something in the woods. Her bewildered family questions her goodness and her sanity nearly as much as she does herself. After a secret affair with a boy from town leaves her with child, she finds herself lost and at odds with her only ally, her sister Emma.At the threat of another bad winters, the family fleas to the plains—and that’s where the creepy really sets in. Terrifying things start happening.

It was a YA book so I wasn't expecting a great deal of scary things to happen. Actually it took almost half of the book for anything scary to occur....but it was worth the wait. It was dark...it was imaginative...and it was very well done. I will probably pick up another of Amy Lukavic's offerings.