Lauren lives with her widowed mother, Karen, and her four-year-old brother David, who seems unusually observant and grown up for his age. Lauren diMucci is fourteen and awkward, slightly behind the puberty curve from her bestie, Miranda, who is putting away childish things and throwing herself perhaps a bit too enthusiastically into the world of nice clothes and makeup and boys with cars. The setting is Smiths Hollow, Illinois, 1985. But if you’re a horror fan looking for a brisk, bloody read, The Ghost Tree delivers. It also has some key story flaws that, on balance, do have a negative impact on its overall success. And it captures the fraught realities of teenage life with almost flawless believability.
It pulls off the exceptional feat of setting its story in the mid-’80s without recourse to an endless stream of hand-wavy (and cringe-inducing) pop cultural references. It’s addictively readable, tense and scary in all of its best moments. Share book reviews and ratings with Thomas, and even join a book club on Goodreads.ĭespite its title, Christina Henry’s The Ghost Tree is not a ghost story, but a story about a town under a curse, combined with nostalgia for some good old fashioned 1980s slashers.
Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will.All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can't just do nothing. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids. After all, the year before her father's body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on.
When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer. When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith’s Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry.
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