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4.0
Darkened Wings Flutter is a story that categorically highlight the reasons why everything isn’t as it seems. A story so dark and evil it makes your insides clench and your spine stiffen. Lou Yardley has once again stepped up that benchmark of bone aching horror. Review of The Deal Maker. She knows what her readers ache for and she delivers with eye popping clarity. This is the kind of horror that unseats you, makes you deftly uncomfortable and hurtles you into the story at one hundred miles per hour. Moths and Monsters meet humanity. Cancel your plans, kick back and experience the high dimensional terror that awaits you!
Chuck. Ryan. Imogen. Beth. Four people who couldn’t be more different. Valid reactions. Layer upon layer of mannerisms, strength and for one a realisation of what life has in store for them. The events that spill out around them breaks the reader down to the extent that you know that you won’t be able to tear the book out of your cold dead fingers! Individual character arcs balanced so intricately that you have to take your hat off to Lou Yardley. She spins the story with a remarkable sense of ease but dipped a megaton of dread. Your heart feels the chill, as does your body – the perfect combination when you have the pleasure of reading a good horror novel.
Imogen was an almost unattainable figure for me. She always felt like she was an ethereal being, creeping into the edges of the scene. Threatening and pulling taut the realms of possibility. Assessing her prey, appearing when you least expect her. Her mannerisms appearing as creepy but is it nature or nurture? Her brother Ryan, is much more approachable, making a firm friendship with the family’s neighbour, Chuck.
Beth teaches in the local school in Crow’s Foot Hollow (did I mention how much I love that name?) She has had her run ins with Imogen and feeling extremely unnerved by her aura of creepiness. She strikes a friendship with Chuck when they pair up to search for Dwayne who mysteriously goes missing during school. They know the forest is connected somehow to his disappearance but, how? Chuck has long had his suspicions about his neighbours. Strange sounds in the middle of the night. The mum being knocked about by their father. He’s often wanted to phone social services but what impact would that have on the children?
I was drawn immediately to Imogen. I viewed as a sort of Wednesday Adams character. Her life force surrounded by black magic. She is a figure that emits such a level of paranoia in you that you constantly have to check over your shoulder for threat. All the protagonists become connected, in a way that you won’t see coming. There is a punch to the jugular moment, breaking free within the pain and suffering. Lou Yardley has exquisitely created characters that make you shiver, make you cower and above all delight in the experience.
Darkened Wings Flutter is incredibly propulsive and unique. It chills the marrow and Yardley is proving just how fertile her storytelling is in a populated genre.
Chuck. Ryan. Imogen. Beth. Four people who couldn’t be more different. Valid reactions. Layer upon layer of mannerisms, strength and for one a realisation of what life has in store for them. The events that spill out around them breaks the reader down to the extent that you know that you won’t be able to tear the book out of your cold dead fingers! Individual character arcs balanced so intricately that you have to take your hat off to Lou Yardley. She spins the story with a remarkable sense of ease but dipped a megaton of dread. Your heart feels the chill, as does your body – the perfect combination when you have the pleasure of reading a good horror novel.
Imogen was an almost unattainable figure for me. She always felt like she was an ethereal being, creeping into the edges of the scene. Threatening and pulling taut the realms of possibility. Assessing her prey, appearing when you least expect her. Her mannerisms appearing as creepy but is it nature or nurture? Her brother Ryan, is much more approachable, making a firm friendship with the family’s neighbour, Chuck.
Beth teaches in the local school in Crow’s Foot Hollow (did I mention how much I love that name?) She has had her run ins with Imogen and feeling extremely unnerved by her aura of creepiness. She strikes a friendship with Chuck when they pair up to search for Dwayne who mysteriously goes missing during school. They know the forest is connected somehow to his disappearance but, how? Chuck has long had his suspicions about his neighbours. Strange sounds in the middle of the night. The mum being knocked about by their father. He’s often wanted to phone social services but what impact would that have on the children?
I was drawn immediately to Imogen. I viewed as a sort of Wednesday Adams character. Her life force surrounded by black magic. She is a figure that emits such a level of paranoia in you that you constantly have to check over your shoulder for threat. All the protagonists become connected, in a way that you won’t see coming. There is a punch to the jugular moment, breaking free within the pain and suffering. Lou Yardley has exquisitely created characters that make you shiver, make you cower and above all delight in the experience.
Darkened Wings Flutter is incredibly propulsive and unique. It chills the marrow and Yardley is proving just how fertile her storytelling is in a populated genre.
arrasails's review
5.0
~ I received an ecopy from the author in exchange for an honest review ~
I just loved this! This book had everything I love about horror and the execution was perfect. It had creepy kids, weird forest monsters, gore, a ton of twists that I weren't expecting. And everytime I thought I knew which way the story was going, something unexpected would happen and turn the story in another direction. Lou definitely was not afraid to kill off characters, which I really appreciated.
There was a lot of guts and blood and gore described in graphic detail, so if you're not comfortable with this, maybe skip this book.
From all the short stories and novels I've read by Lou, this is by far my favorite and I will even go as far as saying that this is her best work yet. I'm super excited to see what she will come out with in the future.
I just loved this! This book had everything I love about horror and the execution was perfect. It had creepy kids, weird forest monsters, gore, a ton of twists that I weren't expecting. And everytime I thought I knew which way the story was going, something unexpected would happen and turn the story in another direction. Lou definitely was not afraid to kill off characters, which I really appreciated.
There was a lot of guts and blood and gore described in graphic detail, so if you're not comfortable with this, maybe skip this book.
From all the short stories and novels I've read by Lou, this is by far my favorite and I will even go as far as saying that this is her best work yet. I'm super excited to see what she will come out with in the future.
the_coycaterpillar_reads's review
4.0
Darkened Wings Flutter is a story that categorically highlight the reasons why everything isn’t as it seems. A story so dark and evil it makes your insides clench and your spine stiffen. Lou Yardley has once again stepped up that benchmark of bone aching horror. Review of The Deal Maker. She knows what her readers ache for and she delivers with eye popping clarity. This is the kind of horror that unseats you, makes you deftly uncomfortable and hurtles you into the story at one hundred miles per hour. Moths and Monsters meet humanity. Cancel your plans, kick back and experience the high dimensional terror that awaits you!
Chuck. Ryan. Imogen. Beth. Four people who couldn’t be more different. Valid reactions. Layer upon layer of mannerisms, strength and for one a realisation of what life has in store for them. The events that spill out around them breaks the reader down to the extent that you know that you won’t be able to tear the book out of your cold dead fingers! Individual character arcs balanced so intricately that you have to take your hat off to Lou Yardley. She spins the story with a remarkable sense of ease but dipped a megaton of dread. Your heart feels the chill, as does your body – the perfect combination when you have the pleasure of reading a good horror novel.
Imogen was an almost unattainable figure for me. She always felt like she was an ethereal being, creeping into the edges of the scene. Threatening and pulling taut the realms of possibility. Assessing her prey, appearing when you least expect her. Her mannerisms appearing as creepy but is it nature or nurture? Her brother Ryan, is much more approachable, making a firm friendship with the family’s neighbour, Chuck.
Beth teaches in the local school in Crow’s Foot Hollow (did I mention how much I love that name?) She has had her run ins with Imogen and feeling extremely unnerved by her aura of creepiness. She strikes a friendship with Chuck when they pair up to search for Dwayne who mysteriously goes missing during school. They know the forest is connected somehow to his disappearance but, how? Chuck has long had his suspicions about his neighbours. Strange sounds in the middle of the night. The mum being knocked about by their father. He’s often wanted to phone social services but what impact would that have on the children?
I was drawn immediately to Imogen. I viewed as a sort of Wednesday Adams character. Her life force surrounded by black magic. She is a figure that emits such a level of paranoia in you that you constantly have to check over your shoulder for threat. All the protagonists become connected, in a way that you won’t see coming. There is a punch to the jugular moment, breaking free within the pain and suffering. Lou Yardley has exquisitely created characters that make you shiver, make you cower and above all delight in the experience.
Darkened Wings Flutter is incredibly propulsive and unique. It chills the marrow and Yardley is proving just how fertile her storytelling is in a populated genre.
Chuck. Ryan. Imogen. Beth. Four people who couldn’t be more different. Valid reactions. Layer upon layer of mannerisms, strength and for one a realisation of what life has in store for them. The events that spill out around them breaks the reader down to the extent that you know that you won’t be able to tear the book out of your cold dead fingers! Individual character arcs balanced so intricately that you have to take your hat off to Lou Yardley. She spins the story with a remarkable sense of ease but dipped a megaton of dread. Your heart feels the chill, as does your body – the perfect combination when you have the pleasure of reading a good horror novel.
Imogen was an almost unattainable figure for me. She always felt like she was an ethereal being, creeping into the edges of the scene. Threatening and pulling taut the realms of possibility. Assessing her prey, appearing when you least expect her. Her mannerisms appearing as creepy but is it nature or nurture? Her brother Ryan, is much more approachable, making a firm friendship with the family’s neighbour, Chuck.
Beth teaches in the local school in Crow’s Foot Hollow (did I mention how much I love that name?) She has had her run ins with Imogen and feeling extremely unnerved by her aura of creepiness. She strikes a friendship with Chuck when they pair up to search for Dwayne who mysteriously goes missing during school. They know the forest is connected somehow to his disappearance but, how? Chuck has long had his suspicions about his neighbours. Strange sounds in the middle of the night. The mum being knocked about by their father. He’s often wanted to phone social services but what impact would that have on the children?
I was drawn immediately to Imogen. I viewed as a sort of Wednesday Adams character. Her life force surrounded by black magic. She is a figure that emits such a level of paranoia in you that you constantly have to check over your shoulder for threat. All the protagonists become connected, in a way that you won’t see coming. There is a punch to the jugular moment, breaking free within the pain and suffering. Lou Yardley has exquisitely created characters that make you shiver, make you cower and above all delight in the experience.
Darkened Wings Flutter is incredibly propulsive and unique. It chills the marrow and Yardley is proving just how fertile her storytelling is in a populated genre.
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