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Lukavics, A. Daughters Unto Devils. Ontario, Canada:
Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 2015. Print. ISBN: 9780373211586. Hardcover.
$17.99
Annotation: Sixteen-year-old
Amanda Verner is glad when her family decides to leave their mountain home and
all its dark memories in favor of a new life on the prairie. But when she
starts to hear strange noises and see ghostly figures, Amanda begins to wonder
if there is something evil on the prairie – or just in her own mind.
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What happened to Amanda
Verner that night last winter? The event haunts her as her pioneer family picks
up and moves from their cabin on a mountain to a new home on the prairie. Her
Pa says the move is to keep them safe so they don’t have to suffer through
another winter, but when they arrive, Amanda starts to see and hear things she
can hardly believe. Strange, disembodied sounds wake her up in the middle of
the night. Ghostly figures appear and vanish. Eventually, she starts to wonder
if she’s really seeing these things, or if the dark evil presence she’s feeling
is coming from inside of her, tied to the horrible thing that happened last
winter. No one in her family ever speaks of it, so she just continues keeping
secrets inside herself. But the more that happens, the more she has to question
if her family really is safe… from a presence on the prairie, or from herself.
This book preys on every
fear you can imagine, especially for young adults like Amanda. The evil
isolates her from her family and friends and plays with our heads when it makes
her question the person that she is. She faces horrible decisions about when to
be honest or who she can trust, all while the darkness of the prairie is
closing in on her. I actually couldn’t sleep the first night after I finished
it. There were so many shockingly gory, horrifying moments interlaced in the
creepy psychological thrill ride that was going on in her head. This a must-read
for horror fans, and definitely not for the faint of heart.
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