I feel like I should start by saying this book was very strange. I knew it was going to be a little strange, but it ended up being a lot strange and I'm still not sure how I feel about that ending.
 
 Laurel has just come back from college to her small southern gothic town. This town is full of rumors, and superstitions that have kept people divided for years and will probably continue to keep them divided forever at this point. You have those that believe that certain people are witches and those that just let them believe they are witches because they are more in tune with what is going on around them in the woods, and in the land. Laurel appears to have some of these abilities and is able to sense that something very wrong is starting to happen in this town since she got back. 
 
 Overall I'm still not sure how to explain this book and my feelings towards it. Parts of it really worked because the uneasy feeling that the author was going for was very present and was just always surrounding you while reading this book. So much happened at the end of this book, whereas the first half kind of dragged on as we learned about all the paranoia the townspeople had towards people like Laurel. The 'monsters' that are in this book are terrifying and how they would attack people was equally terrifying. I just could never fully understand how they worked and why they attacked the people that they did. I think people who love horror more than I do will enjoy this one. It just didn't end up being for me and that's okay. 
 
 “Death did not scare her. Intentions did.”