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Faolan Kelly’s grandfather is dead. She’s alone in the world and suddenly homeless, all because the local powers that be don’t think a young man of sixteen is mature enough to take over his grandfather’s homestead…and that’s with them thinking Faolan is a young man. If she revealed that her grandfather had been disguising her for years, they would marry her off at the first opportunity. The mayor finds a solution that serves everyone but Faolan. He hires a gunslinger to ship her off to the Settlement, a remote fort where social outcasts live under the leadership of His Benevolence Gideon Dillard. It's a place rife with mystery, kept afloat by suspicious wealth. Dillard's absolute command over his staff just doesn't seem right. And neither do the strange noises that keep Faolan up at night. When Faolan finds the body of a Settlement boarder, mangled by something that can’t possibly be human, it’s clear something vicious is stalking the palisades. And as Settlement boarders continue to drop like flies, Faolan knows she must escape to evade the creature’s wrath.
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Well this was extremely disappointing if someone could point me in the direction of where the Horror was that would be great, because it was absolutely non existent in this. This was more western with some random magic then it was horror. There was no atmosphere, not once did I ever feel like these characters were going through or dealing with something potentially scary. Sure there was a few scenes of "something howling in the night" but they literally lived in a settlement in the forest, were wolves, and coyotes and such live too, so the howling wasn't exactly out of the norm.
Faolan was one of those characters where initially she seemed interesting but as the book progressed became more frustrating and by the time I got to the end I hated her. Now this is most likely due to the story doing what every YA book does and that's adding in an unnecessary romance! Please who greenlight the romance in this and why did we think it would have added anything to the story, because it didn't, it actually made the story worse. She talked to the love interest twice before she decided he was the love of her life, oh and let's also not forget that on the first meeting HE is the one she reveals her whole backstory to about why she dresses like a boy (which was such a dumb reason by the way) not the boy and girl back at the settlement she has been becoming friends with, not the gunslinger who is also slowly becoming someone she can depend on, the random boy she just met is the one who gets to learn it first, makes total sense!!!!!
The plot was predictable, along with who will live and who will die, the mastermind behind this poor excuse of a cult, because let's be real there was zero exploration into that. None of the scenes were scary, oh and so you know the "horror" didnt pop up until roughly 260ish pages and it was broken into two scenes, the other not happening until 63 pages were left in the story. The whole last half of the story just completely fizzled out and frankly felt like a different story. Also one of the quotes talks about this being bloody, it's really not, there is like 2 maybe 3 scenes it's honestly extremely disappointing how the horror elements in this was so bad.
Also why was it never explained why and how Faolan woke up in the forest?? Why was this never addressed?? Was it just put in so she could have reason to be with her love interest and make out??? Because thats what it seems to be, unless I missed the explanation.
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