Review: An eerie and highly spooky book!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
This is something which is going to give you chills till the very last pages. Beyond the Shadows by Anna Hub is going to scare your guts out and keep you thrilled till the very end. And as quoted by the author Louisa May Alcott that "Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…", similarly, Selena Parker's life in Beyond the Shadowsis haunted by only shadows and how she learns to hide herself from her very own shadows.A huge thanks to the author, Anna Hub, for sending me over a copy of her book, in return for an honest and unbiased review.Selena Parker is a normal woman with a very normal life, until she is warned by a man in a restaurant to watch out from her shadows. Evidently, she doesn't pay any heed to him. But when Selena blacks out several times, during which she found herself in a scary Shadow world, she searches for the man who had warned her beforehand, only to find him comatose in a mental hospital. When the man wakes up, he tells her that she is going to be soon consumed by her own shadows and in her real-life, she, too is going to end up in that mental hospital. Eventually, Selena falls permanently into that deadly jungle which constitutes the shadow world. The jungle is worst than any real-world jungles, it has got fatal animals and creatures, which is surely going to give you an eerie feeling! Soon Selena starts searching for that man named, Brayden and together they try to search for other survivors in a near-by village.The story-telling of the author is really very eloquent and expressive, since she has managed to bring out every scene so vividly in front of our eyes, thus giving you a creepy feeling all throughout the book. The characters are well-developed, especially Selena is very determined and firm on her journey and moreover, we can relate to her and Brayden, being the caring one.The first-half of the book shows how Selena is fighting hard to keep herself in her real-life and never ever giving up the challenges thrown in her path. The second half shows her to be very weak and fragile, which reminds me of Bella in Twilight, since she needed Brayden to do everything for her. The only disadvantage of the book is that it ends with a very bad cliffhanger (I hate cliffhangers!!) and I'm certainly vouching for the sequel of this book.Hats off to the author's imagination power for representing this Shadow world so distinctly and strongly and also making it horrifying and spooky in each and every turn.If you want your chills running down your spine, then definitely read this book, which in spite of being scary, it's going to hook you till the very end!PS: If you don't want to get scared very badly, then read this book in the bright daylight!!