It’s like The Breakfast Club in that sense, yet here, everyone has their own deeply hidden secret. There’s the vapid popular girl, the shy girl no one notices, the Goth boy, the athlete boy, and then the girl with an attitude. In this book we have five points of view, all teenagers from different walks of life. True, there were moments where I was hooked but then there were moments where I was rolling my eyes, and those moments far outweighed the rest.

While there is a pretty decent creep factor the book failed to keep my attention. Atwood’s debut, The Devils You Know, expecting a creepy read to have me jumping at every noise. To survive, they'll have to band together and ultimately confront the truths of their darkest selves. When they're separated from the group, they discover that what lies within Boulder House is far more horrifying than any rumor they've heard. If there were truth to any of the local folklore, River Red High wouldn't offer a field trip there for the graduating class.įive very different seniors-Violet, Paul, Ashley, Dylan, and Gretchen-volunteer, each for private reasons, none of which have to do with trip itself. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction-or that a murder of crows died upon its completion, turning the land black with their carcasses. Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend.

The devils you know mc atwood