The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

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You may think me biased, being murdered myself But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets.She hunts murderers Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago.And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan.Because the boy has a terrifying secret one that would just kill to get out The Girl from the Well is A YA Horror novel pitched as Dexter meets The Grudge , based on a well loved Japanese ghost story. Free Download The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1) [ By ] Rin Chupeco [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I say it is an onryuu, yet I feel no hate from her An onryuu with a conscience, kami help usShimattaThat means shit in Japanese God help us, this is supposed to be our terrifying heroine Kuso yaroSou desu neRameninsert random ass Japanese word here for authenticity SukiyakiHentai BukkakkeHello Kitty This book will be scary, they said A cross between Dexter and The Ring, they said Not fucking likely.This was how scary the book was for me.Trust me, I m just as disappoiI say it is an onryuu, yet I feel no hate from her An onryuu with a conscience, kami help usShimattaThat means shit in Japanese God help us, this is supposed to be our terrifying heroine Kuso yaroSou desu neRameninsert random ass Japanese word here for authenticity Su...Is this really supposed to be a horror book Like for realI m surprised to say this, since I usually never read this genre because of the chicken that I am , but I found it very dull and never did I have some goose bumps while reading Goose bumps are mandatory to me when reading asupposedlyhorror and creepy story.If someone who has read The Forbidden Game by L.J Smith and couldn t sleep ALL NIGHT says this book was not scary, believe that person On the other hand that book was very d Is this really supposed to be a horror book Like for realI m surprised to say this, since I usually never read this genre because of the chicken that I am , but I found it very dull and never did I have some goose bumps while reading Goose bumps are mandatory to me when reading asupposedlyhorror and creepy story.If someone who has read The Forbidden Game by L.J Smith and couldn t sleep ALL NIGHT says this book was not scary, believe that person On the other hand that book was very different compared to this one.It just didn t have an atmosphere And I don t mean that it was calm That highly important element was just not present, unfortunately.The narration was interesting, Okiku sometimes names a person doing an action and ...ARC provided by Sourcebooks Fire through Netgalley TW murder, mentions of rapeI don t own a TV Yeah, I know you re expecting me to go down the usual pretentious, I don t own a TV, because books are the superior form of blah blah blah but the truth is I don t own one because I am so crazy that after I watched The Ring I had to get rid of my TV There will be NO creepy kids climbing out of a well and into my house So when I got approved for this ARC I went, Oh no, Isa What have you done ARC provided by Sourcebooks Fire through Netgalley TW murder, mentions of rapeI don t own a TV Yeah, I know you re expecting me to go down the usual pretentious, I don t own a TV, because books are the superior form of blah blah blah but the truth is I don t own one because I am so crazy that after I watched The Ring I had to get rid of my TV There will be NO creepy kids climbing out of a well and into my house So when I got approved for this ARC I went, Oh no, Isa What have you done I decided to be a big girl and just read it Here s how The Girl From the Well startsI am where dead children goabove an accurate representation of my reactionI bravely read on and it gets worse And by worse, I mean better, creepier, scarier, and I couldn t phone my mum because it was past 1 a.m., even though after every paragraph I was whispering, I want my mother B...Warning Scary GIFS galore I posted some Asian Film Recommendations as an extra to posting this review on my blog Check it out here and go marathon some scary movies Since I was young, I ve always loved Asian horror films I m a fan of horror in general who agrees with me that getting goosebumps is AWESOME No No Okay , but there s a certain quality in the Asian counterparts that I don t really see in Western works For one, they incorporate their mythology in their films and litera Warning Scary GIFS galore I posted some Asian Film Recommendations as an extra to posting this review on my blog Check it out here and go marathon some scary movies Since I was young, I ve always loved Asian horror films I m a fan of horror in general who agrees with me that getting goosebumps is AWESOME No No Okay , but there s a certain quality in the Asian counterparts that I don t really see in Western works For one, they incorporate their mythology in their films and literature, and these are deep, complex, and old folklore that are very ancient to the point that they sound fucking creepy and mysterious Second, they usually concern the supernatural, so combine a violent death and an urban legend with some mythology to the mix and you pretty much have something that will set your fears to the edge Result Something that s bloody scary and psychologically thrilling....3.5 starsLet s get one fact straight I am a huge wuss I hide behind pillows during horror movies and force people to come with me when I walk into dark rooms I am freaking scared of dolls Those Barbies I collected as a kid I want to throw them all out the window But after reading my first horror book, Anna Dressed in Blood, I thought I wasn t going to be as scared Well, ha ha to myself.That was my reaction throughout the book I was happily enticed by all the mythology and Japanese histo 3.5 starsLet s get one fact straight I am a huge wuss I hide behind pillows during horror movies and force people to come with me when I walk into dark rooms I am freaking scared of dolls Those Barbies I collected as a kid I want to throw them all out the window But after reading my first horror book, Anna Dressed in Blood, I thought I wasn t going to be as scared Well, ha ha to myself.That was my reaction throughout the book I was happily enticed by all the mythology and Japanese history, an...The thing that stands out about The Girl From the Well is the omnipotent, out of the story narrator Well, to be quite fair, Okiku isn t totally out of the story she s actually a ghost who murders child rapists and abusers And she is fucking awesome Not only is she the morally grey girl villain we all needed, but she s also vividly developed and has a brilliant character arc This book is not outright terrifying, it sjust unsettling It s really creepy and atmospheric, with some goo The thing that stands out about The Girl From the Well is the o...We are the fates that people fear to become We are what happens to good persons and to bad persons and to everyone in between Murdered deads live in storms without season, in time without flux We do not go because people do not let us go I frankly haven t heard of this book before, or I genuinely just don t remember it, until, I read an article about it the other month Read it here.I usually shy away from anything horror related, mainly because I m a complete wuss Even though, I ve seen ha We are the fates that people fear to become We are what happens to good persons and to bad persons and to everyone in between Murdered deads live in storms without season, in time without flux We do not go because people do not let us go I frankly haven t heard of this book before, or I genuinely just don t remember it, until, I read an article about it the other month Read it here.I usually shy away from anything horror related, mainly because I m a complete wuss Even though, I ve seen handful of popular Japanese and Filipino thriller films before Rest assured, I watched them through my fingers or with a pillow barricading half my face You don t make a girl with a wild imagination watch gory movies You just don t It usually do not end well for the spirits and I.Inspired by the well known Japanese ghost story Bancho Sarayashiki , The Girl from the Well f...Even with the great premise and creepy as heck scenes throughout, I can t say I liked this one much, unfortunately Though this is all due to the writing, and if you re a fan of it you will have a much better experience with this book than I.The writing is one that, although may work for some, I could never get used to The narrative voices plural because I think there werethan 1, but I m no...It is only for few seconds But when you have resigned yourself to an eternity filled with little else but longing, a few seconds is enoughThis book should be scary, right But why it doesn t felt like one If I could rate the scary creepy level of this book from 1 to 5 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest , I will give it a 2.5 The... The Girl from the Wellsuccessfully gave me the chills and scared the hell out of me and I didn t expect it It was likeThe Grudge The Ringboth Japanese version in book form I remember that time when my friends and I had The Grudge Ju On movie marathon and there are lot of jump scares Especially, Kayako Saeki crawling down the damn stairs and have this eerie voice is etched forever in my mind After reading this book YES I finally found a good Halloween book The story is about a v The Girl from the Wellsuccessfully gave me the chills and scared the hell out of me and I didn t expect it It was likeThe Grudge The Ringboth Japanese version in book form I remember that time when my friends and I had The Grudge Ju On movie marathon and there are lot of jump scares Especially, Kayako Saeki crawling down the damn stairs and have this eerie voice is etched forever in my mind After reading this book YES I finally found a good Halloween book The story is about a vengeful ghost named, Okiku Years ago, she was murdered by a man and her soul remained unrest For years, she murders those who abused children It s a way of giving justice...

The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)
  • English
  • 19 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 267 pages
  • 140229218X
  • Rin Chupeco
  • The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)