Book Review
Title: Hellworld
Author: Tom Leveen
Rating: ★★★★.5
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Genre: YA Horror
Page Count: 320
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Synopsis:
Five years ago, Abby Booth’s mom, co-host of a ghost hunting reality show, went missing while filming in a ‘haunted’ cave in Arizona.
Since then, Abby’s life has all but fallen to pieces, most notably because of her dad’s deep depression and how they’ve drifted further and further apart.
But now, at seventeen, Abby has decided that things will change. She plans to go to the same cave where her mom and the crew went missing and to find out, once and for all, what happened there.
With the help of the co-host’s son Charlie and two of his friends, Abby sets off on a quest for answers…but what the group ends up finding, what they stumble across in that dark, primordial cave in Arizona, is nothing they could have ever imagined.
Abby was investigating a possible haunting… she never expected that there could be something worse
Since then, Abby’s life has all but fallen to pieces, most notably because of her dad’s deep depression and how they’ve drifted further and further apart.
But now, at seventeen, Abby has decided that things will change. She plans to go to the same cave where her mom and the crew went missing and to find out, once and for all, what happened there.
With the help of the co-host’s son Charlie and two of his friends, Abby sets off on a quest for answers…but what the group ends up finding, what they stumble across in that dark, primordial cave in Arizona, is nothing they could have ever imagined.
Abby was investigating a possible haunting… she never expected that there could be something worse
My Thoughts:
I was sent an ARC by the author and publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Hellworld was a very different from my usual reads; I was looking for a good YA horror book and Tom Leveen delivered! I have never enjoyed a horror YA book as much as this one. Abby's mom has gone missing and ever since the investigators stopped the search, she has felt that her mom is still alive. When she finds some evidence that makes her feel like she may be on to something, she decides to call Charlie the son of her mom’s co-host, oh, did I mention her mom has a host for a paranormal show. When she meets with Charlie they decide to go back to the cave were their parents and the whole crew went missing and conduct an investigation of their own; with the help of Charlies friends Alex and Selby.
Hellworld was a very different from my usual reads; I was looking for a good YA horror book and Tom Leveen delivered! I have never enjoyed a horror YA book as much as this one. Abby's mom has gone missing and ever since the investigators stopped the search, she has felt that her mom is still alive. When she finds some evidence that makes her feel like she may be on to something, she decides to call Charlie the son of her mom’s co-host, oh, did I mention her mom has a host for a paranormal show. When she meets with Charlie they decide to go back to the cave were their parents and the whole crew went missing and conduct an investigation of their own; with the help of Charlies friends Alex and Selby.
This book gets its hooks on you from the first page! All you know
is that something has gone horribly wrong and they need to find their way out
of the cave as soon as possible and to make things even more intriguing the
chapters alternate between past and present! So, once you finish one chapter
all you want to do is keep reading to find out what’s going on and how they got
there! The way Leveen described things was so eerie and I loved it, I like
books that give me goosebumps and make me jump from time to time. I can really
see this book becoming a movie! I'm one big horror fan and let me tell you, I
would be the first in line! I also really enjoyed how each character dealt with
what was going on and how their characters grew; that when one would hit a low
point the other would take charge and help them snap out of it. Abby was so
mature and I absolutely loved it, I hate that she had to grow up so quickly
because of the circumstances, but making her as mature as she was made the book
even that more enjoyable! Leveen is really a great writer and knows how to
immerse his reader into the story and get some really good scares out of them.
I can’t wait for the sequel; I need to know what’s going to happen to all this
characters and where the story is headed.
-SandraTheBookWorm
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