a dark and starless forest by sarah hollowell

The plot follows Derry, a teenage girl with supernatural abilities and eight adopted siblings, all of them being raised by Frank. Also, I got denied for an ARC so I did need it in some form. You can’t not immediately need that on your shelf. It has a powerful fat girl on it and a gorgeous nighttime aesthetic.

I bought this book before I read it and I regret nothing. And that just might be the most dangerous thing of all. But saving her siblings from the forest and from Frank might mean embracing the darkness. and so does the darkness inside her, the viciousness she wants to pretend doesn’t exist.

Even if that means returning to the forest that has started calling to Derry in her missing siblings’ voices.Īs Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more powerful. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. When another sibling goes missing and Frank’s true colors start to show, feeling safe is no longer an option. Jane and Derry swore to each other that they’d never go into the forest, not after their last trip ended in blood, but Derry is sure she saw Jane walk into the trees. Until the night her eldest sister disappears.

After all, the world isn’t safe for people with magic. Frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says it’s for their own good. When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest-and the growing darkness in herself-in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.ĭerry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest.

A dark and starless forest by sarah hollowell