Book: The Devouring - Sorry Night
Author: Simon Holt
Published: 2008
With an AWOL mother and a father who might as well be gone too, Regina’s carrying more burdens than she knows what to do with. Escape into Lovecraft or Poe or even a good slasher flick are a welcome escape, because she knows she can always close the book or stop the DVD.
Then she finds a journal detailing another girl’s terrifying experience with incorporeal beings she calls “Vours,” evil creatures that feed on fear and take up possession in a human body. At first, Regina thinks it’s the rough draft of a never-published novel. But then her little brother Henry starts acting strange. Inhuman, almost . . .
Now Regina’s got to battle her own fears to rescue her little brother, or they’ll both be lost forever.
I don’t usually read horror, but The Devouring: Sorry Night caught me firmly and held me on the couch until I hit the last page, with its promises of evil only temporarily vanquished. It gets pretty gory and sick at times (in particular, don’t read the hospital scene when eating) but teen horror fans will love it.
Read this with all the lights on.
2 comments:
I've heard good things about this one - I'm holding out hope that my library'll get it in time for a Halloween read-in (Friday night! Whoo!).
Its a very very good book i read it in about 3 hours so thrill gripping. But I still like twilight better.
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