The Girl from the Well
Author: Rin Chupeco
Publication Date: August 5th 2014
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night.
A dead girl walks the streets.
She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago.
And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan.
Because the boy has a terrifying secret - one that would just kill to get out.
The Girl from the Well is A YA Horror novel pitched as "Dexter" meets "The Grudge", based on a well-loved Japanese ghost story
The Girl from the Well is one I'd love to say I loved, the
concept was perfect for me. The ultimate scare because I absolutely freak out
when it comes to these types of spirits/myths, as of Bloody Mary. The Ring
scared the crap out of me, a few years ago insomnia kicked in and I couldn't
sleep and I was too tired to read so I put the TV on, and guess what it just
happens to be on? Yup. The Ring. Right were she's coming out of the well.
Needless to say that night I didn't sleep at all and decided to stare at the
static just to make sure nothing moved.
