ARC Review: Blackbrooke by Emma Silver

About Book 

I live in Blackbrooke and you would have had to be living under a rock to never have heard of it before now. This town is different to most others…Humans aren’t the only residents…”

The residents of Blackbrooke share their town with the Creatures, or Crits as they are known. Grotesque, roaming the streets at night looking for food, their presence means humans have to live by the Rules, keeping them indoors and forbidding them of basic desires.

The most important Rule?

Don’t be a ‘walk out’!

Straight-A student, Liberty Connor, hates the Crits and the endless Rules she and her tight knit group of friends have to live by.

Planning her new life on the Outside with her boyfriend, Gabriel, Liberty whiles away her days waiting to turn 18, so they can leave and be free. That is, until the world she thinks she knows begins to unravel…

Her friends start to walk out. So she’s told. However, something’s not right. Things don’t add up.

Liberty faces a race against time to discover what’s going on with the Creatures of Blackbrooke.

Is it them she has to fear, or something much closer to home?

My Review

5 Stars

I was given a review copy by the author for an honest review.

When I read that this was a Young Adult Horror I was a little skeptical in the beginning. I was rewarded with a wonderfully written story that kept drawing me in further and further until I reached the end. Do not let the label Young Adult fool you, this is a true YA Horror that will leave you speechless. The characters were amazing and I got connected to them early into the book. As I read through the story, following Liberty Connor and what she learns about Blackbrooke with the help of her friends,  I was a bucket of emotions up to the last sentence.  Emma Silver has created an amazing YA Horror that does not lack in its share of gore or nail biting scenes that have you at the edge of you seat.