Author: Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

A lifelong reader of all things YA and books with heartfelt moments that punch you with all the feels. Currently expanding my reading interests to encompass anything that makes me feel deep and resonate with the characters
4.5 star, YA

ARC Review: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Series: Truly Devious #4

After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.

Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she’s back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer.

But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls—the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies left in a gruesome display. The new owner offers Stevie an invitation: Come to the camp and help him work on a true crime podcast about the case.

Stevie agrees, as long as she can bring along her friends from Ellingham Academy. Nothing sounds better than a summer spent together, investigating old murders.

But something evil still lurks in Barlow Corners. When Stevie opens the lid on this long-dormant case, she gets much more than she bargained for. The Box in the Woods will make room for more victims. This time, Stevie may not make it out alive.

**The Box in the Woods comes out June 15, 2021**

Thank you Edelweiss and HarperCollins for this copy in exchange for an honest review

Did you think the story was over? Guess again.

Our favorite high school sleuth, Stevie Bell, is out for the summer. At home, you guessed it, bored. What’s a summer after you (technically) solved the cold case murder mystery of the century? Well, time to jump into another case, right?

While I, maybe like a lot of you who’ve perhaps read the trilogy, thought that was the end, boy am I glad that there’s more! I think I loved this one even more than the previous books. Why? Because:

A) it’s a self contained murder mystery within this one book instead of spread across 3 books where I will forget details and lose suspense with the wait time between novels

B) we already know Stevie and her friends well that it’s like slipping on old shoes and seeing them at their best (or worst) without unnecessary fanfare

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved and Wanted More Of

Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Hello friends! It’s been one hectic week for me, and I’m not sure the new job will slow down any time soon. While this may mean I’ll be more sporadic on the blog here, I always look forward to Tuesdays for TTT.

This week I am highlighting books/series I loved so much that I wished there were more books to this world to continue living the stories of these beloved characters. Whether it be to walk alongside people I’ve grown to love like they are real (let’s be honest, these characters sometimes feel more real to us than real people in our lives, don’t they?) or to sightsee a wondrous, fantastical land that is so vivid to us by the author’s descriptions, I enjoyed all these 5 star reads so much that I would love to relive it all over again for the first time if I could.

Let me know if any of these books/series would land in your list too!

1. The Gilded Wolves series by Roshani Chokshi

I would love to hunt artifacts with this gang, plus there’s just something about the historical time setting that always makes my heart wish to see what it would’ve been like to experience it firsthand (for just a moment though, because I do like my sanitation and cell phone).

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Top Ten Tuesday: Forgettable Book Adaptations

Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Hi friends! It’s been a long yesterday, starting with a new job. We will see how much reading I can do this month considering I’m still adjusting with a nearly-overwhelming amount of new information.

Today’s TTT is a freebie topic. I’ll be sharing some YA book adaptations that may not be as memorable among the many that have been produced over the last decade or so. After all, there have been a number of box office successes (whether they were truly loved by the masses or not).

Among these include movies such as Twilight, Divergent and The Hunter Games franchises. If we’re throwing in TV series, we have shows like The Vampire Diaries, Shadowhunters, and the recently successful Netflix series Shadow & Bone. The number of adaptations from YA books are increasing, even with the most recent release of the Amazon Prime series Panic. With streaming platforms potentially changing the ability to make a profit off of book adaptations, I have a feeling we will only be seeing more in the future.

These others below are a little older and have therefore fallen between the cracks a little in our memory banks in the old system of movie releases or cable TV options. But, they deserve a little attention too. Hopefully you’ll find something of interest to watch in case you haven’t seen them before.

Without further ado, let’s begin!

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