Good book this .... another on my Kindle. This one has again been on my wish list for a while and close to the top. The story of four British guys who were friends at Uni, they have lost touch quite a lot and hope to reconnect. However, they have to abort their long distance hike as one of the guys hurts his knee and the other is struggling fitness as he's overweight. So, a look at the map leads to them cutting through a massive valley with some ancient old wood in it, one of the oldest on the planet. Pretty much as soon as they find the carcass of some massive animal, hanging in the trees and stripped of it's skin, it is pretty clear that some horrible thing inhabits those trees. It is a book of two halfs really as in the first half the book chronicles their attempts to escape from the trees, lost, whilst it stalks them and kils three of them. As the fourth is on his last legs, quite literally, he is "rescued" by three young people who wear make-up as if they are part of the rock band Kiss and an old woman (the start of the second half). However it soon becomes clear that he is out of the frying pan and into the fire. Quite a scary, thrilling book, well written with characters you can relate to (one's from Yorkshire and one of the others has trouble with his temper!). Whilst a very serious book it has the odd bit of humour that had my lol'ing "here's the food, it will be aweful, we can't cook shit, we burn water" and talking to one of the younder guys Luke says "....hey Ferens, your eye-liner is running mate!"!!!
Adam Neville, I'll read more :-)
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