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Book Review of Winter Wake

Winter Wake
Winter Wake
Author: Rick Hautala
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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This was one long book, but that is ok. The writer did an awesome job at holding my interest. This book could have been a horror film. It is not gory or anything like that. Its the spook factor that makes the horror in this book.
Set on an island in Massachusetts. A man and his wife and daughter move in with his father. Things are rocky between them since he left as a teen. Coming back to this lobstering town is a big change for everyone in the family. Use to the city and suburban life. Instead of seeing skyscrapers each day, its the harbor, the fog, the townsfolk. An adjustment in itself, but whats more of an adjustment are the scratchings in the walls, the strange looks people give them as they walk by. The quiet murmurings. Shadows passing by the windows, voices in the night.
Something from the past is coming back for retribution. This man should never have brought his family back to his hometown. The past should have stayed buried.