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The Luminaries
Do you like haunted forests? Winnie Wednesday and her family live Hemlock Falls which just happens to be next a a deadly forest full of monsters. Very night the Luminaries go out into this forest and kill the monsters before they can escape and wreck havoc on the world. Winnie dreamed of becoming a Luminarie one day. However, her dad was exposed as a witch and a traitor and since that day her family have been shunned by the community making her life pure misery. Her only hope is her one chance to escape the shunning and become a Luminarie is to pass the test on her 16th birthday. But, things dob’t go as planned and she soon finds out there are monsters in the woods not every one knows about.
So, I fell in love with this world from the first page. There were times when I got tired of hearing how bad her life was. Am I a bit of a jaded reader. However, the book moves extremely fast and soon we stop dwelling so much on her bad life and more on what is happening.
I love the forest and the descriptions of the monsters. If you have ever liked looking up monsters in books you’re going to love this. Winnie studies the Compendium, the book where they store their knowledge of the supernatural monsters. She also draws them and I hope we get some really good fan art from this!
Winnie is a very relatable character to follow. She struggles, things do not come easy for her, but so continues to fight and struggle. She’s smart and capable, but not invincible.
The romance was okay. But, the guy kinda annoyed me. There is more to him though and I have a feeling in the next book we’re going to learn even more. So, hopefully he will grow on me.
There is some fun mysteries in this book and I really liked them. There is a plot twist that comes that you can kinda see coming but that you’re pretty happy about, at least I was.
Overall, this book is fast paced, full of monsters, a haunted forest, some high school drama with kids who liven a secret society, and there’s some really great moments. I’d say if you liked A Deadly Education this book has some very similar vibes and you’d probably love this book as well.
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