
I appreciate that although this is also a coming-of-age story, it’s different than the (unfortunate) norm in that it’s about a girl coming of age! OMG WHAT A CONCEPT! I’m not bitter, I swear. I won’t go into detail about because I would hate to ruin the story for you. The Ghost Tree does use some tried-and-true tropes of the sub-genre. I received an ARC of this book from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can’t just do nothing. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids.

After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on.

When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith’s Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in The Ghost Tree, a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry.
