The Devouring Gray The Devouring Gray #1 [E–pub New]

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• The Devouring Gray The Devouring Gray #1
• Christine Lynn Herman
• English
• 27 September 2020
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Christine Lynn Herman Í 3 review

The Devouring Gray The Devouring Gray #1 review ¹ 103 Christine Lynn Herman Í 3 review read ´ eBook or Kindle ePUB Í Christine Lynn Herman She’s descended from one of the town’s founders doesn’t help much either her new neighbours treat her with distant respect and something very like fear When she meets Justin May Isaac and Harper all children of founder families and sees the otherworldly dest. This was hurt it would never understand This was hurt made from love And she immersed herself in grief embraced it the parts of her that had been so lost and broken so long her enemy were now her savior I devoured this book in one sitting and it has devoured me I FUCKING LOVED IT I honestly heard a couple good things surrounding this book there wasn t much hype to it there still isn t too some extent But what I m going to tell you is BELIEVE THAT HYPE IT S TRUE AND REAL t h a n k g o d I first heard this book pitched as the raven boys meets stranger thingsWTF How can two godsblessed and just perfect aspects of my favorite series be a thingWell let me tell you It fucking can Granted nothing can come close to The Raven Boys for me but this book comes as a close runner up in third place In second place is Gray Wolf Island i fucking love this book so much go read it if you love the TRC like I do This book does share similar aspects of TRC and ST but I think it s eually distinctive and uniue standing overtly strong on its own I don t think I ve read anything like it in any book before so that was amazingly refreshing The characters were the strongest aspect of the book And most important I fucking love Violet Granted my lease favorite character was Justin annoying but he grew on me later The writing in of itself wasn t really anything special but I think its ordinariness elevated the story itself into something better and spectacular I don t think the blurb does a good job explaining what the story is about but I think that s a good thing I expected something different and got something better instead I want the seuel Now Honestly I just really love books with little sparks of magic in a place of our world It s grounding and realistic Hidden A fucking gem Ultimately this was a story about grief and loss taking control of your own life and destiny the heavy ties and core of motherhood and broken fractured friendshipsAnother favorite of mine And also can we just agree that the UK cover is waayy better than the US cover 5 DEVOURING STARSTwitter Bookstagram Youtube The Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven Boys The Raven Boys meets Stranger Things this almost sounds to good to be true Anxiously waiting for 2019 The Unicorn in the Barn respect and something very like fear When she meets Justin May Isaac and Harper all children of founder families and sees the otherworldly dest. This was hurt it would never understand This was hurt made from love And she immersed herself in grief embraced it the parts of her that had been so lost and broken so long her enemy were now her savior I devoured this book in one sitting and it has devoured me I FUCKING LOVED IT I honestly heard a couple good things surrounding this book there wasn t much hype to it there still isn t too some extent But what I m going to tell you is BELIEVE THAT HYPE IT S TRUE AND REAL t h a n k g o d I first heard this book pitched as the Fetch raven boys meets stranger thingsWTF How can two godsblessed and just perfect aspects of my favorite series be a thingWell let me tell you It fucking can Granted nothing can come close to The Raven Boys for me but this book comes as a close Casos De Direito Galáctico E Outros Textos Esquecidos runner up in third place In second place is Gray Wolf Island i fucking love this book so much go Tales of the Unquiet Gods read it if you love the TRC like I do This book does share similar aspects of TRC and ST but I think it s eually distinctive and uniue standing overtly strong on its own I don t think I ve Heart Attack read anything like it in any book before so that was amazingly Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed With Time refreshing The characters were the strongest aspect of the book And most important I fucking love Violet Granted my lease favorite character was Justin annoying but he grew on me later The writing in of itself wasn t The Blue Hour really anything special but I think its ordinariness elevated the story itself into something better and spectacular I don t think the blurb does a good job explaining what the story is about but I think that s a good thing I expected something different and got something better instead I want the seuel Now Honestly I just SQLアンチパターン really love books with little sparks of magic in a place of our world It s grounding and The Stone Carnation realistic Hidden A fucking gem Ultimately this was a story about grief and loss taking control of your own life and destiny the heavy ties and core of motherhood and broken fractured friendshipsAnother favorite of mine And also can we just agree that the UK cover is waayy better than the US cover 5 DEVOURING STARSTwitter Bookstagram Youtube The Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven BoysThe Raven Boys The Raven Boys meets Stranger Things this almost sounds to good to be true Anxiously waiting for 2019

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The Devouring Gray The Devouring Gray #1 review ¹ 103 Christine Lynn Herman Í 3 review read ´ eBook or Kindle ePUB Í Christine Lynn Herman Ruction they can wreak she starts to wonder if the townsfolk are right to be afraidWhen bodies start to appear in the woods the locals become downright hostile Can the teenagers solve the mystery of Four Paths and their own part in it before another calamity strik. TW some body horror possession lots of death death of a parent sibling etcThis is the story of the teenage members of the founding families in a small town where the founding families have powers to keep a monster in the forest in line This was just the right combination of friendship history dark powers and spookiness Also nearly every main character is a canon bisexual trying their best It weaves together themes of grief and loss power loyalty family ties and growing up I highly enjoyed this and will be continuing with the series

The Devouring Gray The Devouring Gray #1 review ¹ 103 Christine Lynn Herman Í 3 review read ´ eBook or Kindle ePUB Í Christine Lynn Herman On the edge of town a beast haunts the woods trapped in the Gray its bonds looseningUprooted from the city Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New York The fact that. ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Four Paths had its charms if you could ignore the fact that it was also a monster prison she apparently had some ancestral obligation to deal with This is a really hard review for me to write because this book had some of my favorite things of all time lyrical and beautiful writing that I could nonstop highlight an atmosphere setting that gives me goosebumps even just thinking about a mystery all surrounding what hides in the dark depths of the forest and a very diverse cast of characters Like damn But if this isn t the first review of The Devouring Gray you ve read yes all the Riverdale and Stranger Things comparisons are all valid I kind of think The Raven Cycle one is a bit of stretch but I can kind of see it But this debut novel really impressed me and I can t wait to see what the author does next But The Devouring Gray follows four teens in upstate New York all living in a little secluded town called Four Paths And in this mysterious forest town four families are held to a higher standard because their descendants were the reason the town is protected from the Beast who hunts them And all the descendants are able to harness the powers that should be passed down through their bloodline but only if they survive a ritual pertaining to their ancestor But now the town is under attack and all hope is with four teens who are the descendants that are needed for survival yet they might not be ready to provide protection for themselves or anyone else just yet in eighteen forty seven a group of settlers seeking a new life in upstate New York decided to end their pilgrimage here On this day we celebrate the leaders of that group Thomas Carlisle Lydia Saunders Richard Sullivan and Hetty Hawthorne Harper Carlisle Missing one arm from the elbow down after her ritual to harness her powers went wrong and holding a grudge over someone who used to be her best friend but wanted nothing to do with her after her accident Also her father is a predominant figure in the safety of the town Also also a warrior babe who can wield many weapons Violet Saunders Bisexual just moving to Four Paths after the death of her sister and trying to learn to live with an astronomical amount of grief while also learning that she has a hidden bloodline she never knew about Also piano playing goddess Isaac Sullivan Bisexual living on his own after the rest of his family died in an accident He is also Justin s best friend a broody reader babe and he has the best and most scary power of them all Also he was easily my favorite character Justin Hawthorne The popular boy who has the most powerful family in town even though he feels like he must always do what his mother also the sheriff of the town wants even though he is keeping a very big secret from her Side note I would die for his sister May my tarot card reading baby Powers or not he was still a Hawthorne He would find a way to keep Four Paths safe Yet even though these are the four main characters we have so many side characters too And this in addition to the fact that the story jumps points of view a lot I just feel like I never truly cared about any of the characters even though I didn t have a problem with any of them I mean it really is a strange feeling because I can mentally break down that these are the four main characters but while reading the chapter switching just makes me feel like I m reading ASOIAF or something else that feels like we are given so many different points of view I feel like this was the biggest factor that kept me from loving this book I never truly got to know any of these characters because of the way the story jumps around Also if I m being honest the Beast and the Gray felt too much like Stranger Things to me but also with not enough explanation I obviously am here for a good mystery but I think seeing of this parallel world the mysterious creature and its powers would have really benefited the story by filling in some much needed gaps and made the situation feel scarier and high risk Like I was honestly convinced that some type of humans or other beings were going to reside in this world Or we were going to fully understand the powers and what this thing was capable and not capable of I don t know the concept is just so amazing but I felt really let down by the biggest risk factor of the story But I still loved watching all these teens learn how to find their powers and learn how to use their powers I loved seeing them grow both apart and together I loved seeing all the different friendship roots both brand new and old ones healing I loved seeing how these four handled grief and trauma all very differently but still all very validly And I loved to see all of these teens realize they are worth a hell of a lot than the past mistakes of the ancestors they are forced to live up to Something inside Violet had cracked the day Rosie died There was an abscess in her chest a gaping hole in the back of her skull A place for evil things to slip right in Overall I really loved the ownvoices ueer rep and the atmosphere and setting were truly nothing short of amazing I do want to mention that the main relationships in this are not ff but there are lots of hints at side ff relationships Also even though I could never truly connect with the story I still think there is so much good here And I think many readers will still really enjoy this one upon release But that epilogue ending made me audibly gasp that made my cat give me angry eyes for waking her Is this the start of a series Because I am totally down with reading whatever Christine Lynn Herman comes up with next but especially with this setting as a backdrop Blog Instagram Twitter Tumblr Youtube Twitch The uotes above were taken from an ARC and are subject to change upon publicationContent and trigger warnings for loss of a loved one a lot of talk of death murder grief and trauma depictions violence abandonment talk of rituals and self sacrifice and assault