Winterwood

By Shea Ernshaw

Book Overview

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep comes a haunting romance perfect for fans of Practical Magic, where dark fairy tales and enchanted folklore collide after a boy, believed to be missing, emerges from the magical woods--and falls in love with the witch determined to unravel his secrets.

Be careful of the dark, dark wood...

Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.

Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it's this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman--the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago--and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he'd been missing.

But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver's presence. And it's not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn't know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own--secrets he'll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn't the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.

For as long as there have been fairy tales, we have been warned to fear what lies within the dark, dark woods and in Winterwood, New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, shows us why.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534439412
• ISBN13: 9781534439412
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

3 stars

WINTERWOOD by Shea Ernshaw A dark and mysterious forest, a missing boy, a possibly dead boy, a bottomless lake, a family of witches with uncommon powers and abilities… It all sounds intriguing, right? While the writing is lovely and atmospheric, the pacing was painfully slow and narrative was repetitive. There was a lot of over-explaining and over-emphasis of details. I found the main character, Nora Walker, to be one dimensional and whiny. Her insta-love interest, Oliver, wasn’t any better either. It probably didn’t help that I figured out the twist/mystery very early on so it made reading (to find out if I was correct) tedious. The only parts I liked were the snippets taken from Nora’s family’s spell book. Give me a story about those magically tragic relatives instead! Overall a good story, but it just didn’t work for me. Rating: 3/5 ⭐️