Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to let us share our excitement for books coming out soon.
A Head Full of Ghosts was not on my radar pre-release, but I do remember hearing fantastic reviews for it. And this one by the same author sounds so creepy and heart wrenching, I seriously can not wait to check it out! Plus, if the author can scare the hell out of Stephen King, I really have to read something by them, right?
Disappearance at Devil's Rock: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
Published by William Morrow on June 21st 2016
Pages: 336
“A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay’s previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers. Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her fourteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park. The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend his disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock. Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their own windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connected them all and changes everything. As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened becomes more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.
Great pick! I just added this to my wishlist at the weekend and requested A Head Full Of Ghosts from the library! Can’t wait to get my hands on both of them 🙂
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Hope you enjoy! I should check my library for Head Full of Ghosts! 🙂
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
I almost picked this one too! I have a copy of Head Full of Ghosts that I’m trying to read soon, and I’ve heard great things about this author. Can’t wait!
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I’ve heard really good things too! (But now I can’t remember from who because I thought it was you or Lynn …. hmmm)
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
I haven’t heard of this one before.
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I haven’t heard much about it, but the synopsis caught my attention 🙂
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
I just received an ARC and can’t wait to get started. It sounds really interesting and I am looking forward to it.
me too 🙂 Hope you enjoy it!
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
This sounds great and I feel I should also go and check out Head Full of Ghosts.
Lovely creepy pick!
Lynn 😀
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I love creepy! 🙂
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
I can’t wait until my library hold on A Head Full of Ghosts comes in, I’m so curious about this author!