The Devouring book review

I ended up getting sick at the ending of Nov. and while I tried to read I couldn't get through chapter three, much less the rest of the book without getting extremely dizzy.

The Devouring (The Devouring book #1 of 3) by Simon Holt

Paperback, 256 pages
Read: Nov. 28 and Dec. 2
Rating: 4/5
Genres: Young Adult, Horror, Paranormal, Psychological Horror
Summery: When Reggie finds an old journal and reads about the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, she assumes they are just the musings of some lunatic author. But soon, they become a terrifying reality when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.
Risking her life and her sanity, Reggie enters a living nightmare to save the people she loves. Can she devour own her fears before they devour her?
Bone-chilling, terrifying, thrilling...what are you waiting for?

Review: This story starts with the beginning of a story about Jeremiah getting taken over by Vours on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. It was a good book, I enjoyed it, but there were definitely problems with it for me. The first and biggest one for me was that while the characters were okay, I didn't connect with, or get invested with any of them. Although I liked the fast pace I think that might have caused the problem with the characters for me. Also the more or less complete absence of parents, whether they weren't there completely or weren't there emotionally, bothered me. I did really like the psychological aspect, especially with the horror. The Vours, or as there called in the book, are these shadows/dark mists that take over your body a trap you in your worst fears in your mind, trying to keep hope that you will escape before you either die or become completely devoured by your fears. I really liked the Vours aspect of the book and there are a few cliffhangers/questions about one of the characters (Eben) that makes me want to read the rest of the series. I read this book once before back in 2012, and when I read the summery to the last/third book in the series I ended up not wanting to read the second or third in the series, because the summery for the third book gives a big spoiler to the ending of the second book away. So my advice is if you do read the first book and want to continue with the series, don't read the summery to the third book before you read the second book through. Although thanks to the third books summery I know whats going to happen at the end of the second book, I will be reading the rest of the series.


Thanks to first being very busy mid Nov. and getting very sick at the end of Nov. I had to put The Devouring series, The Montrumologist, and the 2 in 1 Chaos Walking Omnibus, onto Dec. T.B.R. list so I am now hoping to read and finish 13 more books this Dec., and finish 50 physical books for the year of 2014 (Not including the 6 short stories/novellas I have on my kindle).

Hope everybody has/had a great day : )