Title: The Staircase in the Woods
Author: Chuck Wendig
Genre: Fiction, horror, mystery/thriller
Rating: 3 out of 5
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.
Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something a mysterious staircase to nowhere.
One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.
Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .
This was the first book by Wendig I’ve read, and I have to say, I wasn’t impressed. This didn’t feel like horror to me—gross and disgusting, yes, creepy, absolutely, but not horror. This book felt like a political agenda, and I’m never on board with that, but I also found the characters genuinely unlikeable, and the book just seemed to drag pointlessly along to an ending with zero resolution.
Chuck Wendig is a bestselling author. The Staircase in the Woods is his newest novel.
(Galley courtesy of Random House/Del Rey in exchange for an honest review.)
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