Following Winnie Wednesday as an outcast for 10 years because her family has fallen from grace in the Luminaries ranks because her father was branded a traitor. He's fled but her and her brother and mother have stayed and weathered the punishment and snide comments. All while picking up the bodies....or what's left of them from the nightmares that lurk in Hemlock Falls forest.

But it's the month of her 16th birthday and she refuses to let her only opportunity to join in the Luminaries ranks pass just because her family is in exile.

So alone she ventures into the forest to hunt a nightmare.

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My thoughts.

It absolutely sucked me in what's not interesting about a forest that at night nightmares come alive, and can hunt you within the forest until the fog clears and the sun rises.

It absolutely hits the head of the nail about small communities and how people will flip the switch when it most benefits them.

My problem with the book first is my only Winnie clicks her teeth as a nervous tick through the whole book and I can mentally hear it and my brain can not stand the sound so repetitively.



Now spoilers and a theory



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The synopsis of the book gives most of the book away. Because Jay didn't really help her in his human form and seeing as the werewolf is everywhere she is in the trials it's very easy to pick up on that,

BUT

makes me think that while the Friday house is small most of them are werewolves. And I think that because they're the house that is usually bigger and more..... Fighters. Might be wrong on that account

But also her old friend..... How you not gonna notice bandaids!?! Knowing that's what your father was accused of.... Plus she knew what that locket was.