"If you delight in a reading atmosphere of suspense, tension, and fear, then step into this debut horror set in a forest in Connemara."
This deliciously dark and different read is equally eerie and thrilling. When Mina finds herself stranded in a forest, she welcomes the safety of a bunker as darkness falls and the screams begin. A. M. Shine has devised a world that sits on the edge of nightmares, unbelievable slips into the believable with sly ease creating a tension that remains until the end. The prologue creates a moment in time, and snippets of knowledge escaped into my thoughts as I waited for the first chapter to begin. This awareness stayed with me as I read, and I explored my thoughts as the Watchers moved alongside me through the pages. The horror here is one of chilling intensity, it exists in the unknown, in what might be. I particularly enjoyed the sections within the forest where the suspense is heightened. The atmosphere within the bunker and surrounding woods bites with a concentrated energy. The ending felt entirely appropriate for both the plot and genre. The Watchers is an oh-so readable debut horror skirting that wonderful clifftop edge of believable terror.
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You can't see them. But they can see you.
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.
Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.
Afraid and trapped among strangers, Mina is desperate for answers. Who are the Watchers, and why are they keeping the humans imprisoned, keen to watch their every move?
A spine-chilling debut horror adventure set in the remote and sinister forests of Ireland, from critically acclaimed Irish writer A.M. Shine.
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The Watchers features in the following genres: Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction, Fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Thriller and Suspense, Audiobooks of the Month
The Watchers is available in Paperback, Audiobook, Ebook (Epub)
The Watchers was written by A.M. Shine and published by Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Watchers has 320 pages
£8.99
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