Book Review

The Devouring by Simon Holt


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Okay, so there's these things called Vours, they're evils,demonic creatures and they feed off of peoples fears, and now they're taking over Regina's life. It all started when she came across an old diary called the Devouring at the book store she works at. She has always been into anything that involves horror, movies and books, so she decides to read the diary. She discovers that the diary is about these creatures called Vours that take over peoples bodies on Sorry Night, also known as the winter solstice, her and her best friend, Aaron, decide to see if they can attract these so called Vours. So, on Sorry Night they both face there biggest fears to see if that will work. Regina has a fear of spiders so to face her fear she lets on crawl all over her for one minute. Aaron has a huge fear of drowning, so his task is to stay under the water of Reginas hot tube for one minute, but he is not succsessful. So, after facing there greatest fears and having not attracted these creatures they declare that they do ot exist. But they were not the only ones in the house that night. Henry, Reginas little brother was up in his bedroom all by himself that night. A few nights before his sister had read to him some of the Devouring and so he was terrified to sleep that night. He was scared that the Vours would come for him on Sorry Night just like they did to the boy in the diary. When Henry gets out of bed that night and can't find anyone in the house he is forced to face one of his greatest fears of being all alone at night in a dark house, and this is when the darkness takes him.

"When dark creeps in and eats the light,

Bury your fears on Sorry Night.

For in the winter's blackest hours

Comes the feasting of the Vours.

No one can see it, the life they stole,

Your body's here but not your soul..."

And this is the point where Reginas life beginnins to spin out of control. Her brother is no longer there, he may appear the same, but thats just his body his soul is gone and in its place lives a dark demonic creature. Now Regina has to find away to defet the creature and return her brothers soul to his body, but how do you do this when no one believes that anything wrong.

This book was full of suspence and horror and will captivate you right from the first page, and leve you wanting more when it ends. One thing that I really liked about this book was that it was fast moving and always keept me reading. I would recommend this book to any teens or young adults that loves horror, this book will not disapoint. And don't forget the next book, The Soulstice.



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