Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw

About The Book

Title: Winterwood

Author: Shea Ernshaw

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Pages: 323

Rating: ★★★

Synopsis:

Be careful of the dark, dark wood…



Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.



Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it’s this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman—the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago—and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he’d been missing.



But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver’s presence. And it’s not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn’t know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own—secrets he’ll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn’t the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.

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My Review

I read Shea Ernshaw's other book, The Wicked Deep and from what I remember, I think I really liked it. 

This one just didn't do it for me. I liked it at some parts... honestly? Just the ending. Everything leading up to the ending parts just didn't work for me. 

Winterwood follows Nora Walker, a girl who is rumored to be a witch. If I'm not mistaken, I think she isn't aware or doesn't think she's a witch. She happens to find lost things in the woods by her home and she keeps them. One day, she finds a boy that went missing about two weeks before.

Oliver isn't being truthful about something. There's a boy dead and nobody at the camp is coming clean. Winterwood follows these two characters while they piece everything together.

I didn't have a great time reading this book. I liked the twist at the end and I wasn't expecting it. I just really wish everything leading up to the end was better. I only didn't dnf because it was such an easy book to read.

Even though I didn't like this book, I will still be picking up books by Shea Ernshaw in the future. They seem to always have a dark element to them and I really like that.