Review: The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray #1) by Christine Lynn Herman

Book Blurb:

On the edge of town a beast haunts the woods, trapped in the Gray, its bonds loosening…

Uprooted from the city, Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths, a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New York. The fact that she’s descended from one of the town’s founders doesn’t help much, either—her new neighbours treat her with distant respect, and something very like fear. When she meets Justin, May, Isaac, and Harper, all children of founder families, and sees the otherworldly destruction they can wreak, she starts to wonder if the townsfolk are right to be afraid.

When bodies start to appear in the woods, the locals become downright hostile. Can the teenagers solve the mystery of Four Paths, and their own part in it, before another calamity strikes?

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My Review:

4 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Another-World, Heart-Wrenching, Mystery, Scary, Supernatural, Suspense, Teen, Witches--

I felt that the mystery element of the story was awesome, surprising and twisty as well as terrifying and I loved everything about it. The world that the author created was so different from anything I have encountered and secrets kept getting revealed causing me to doubt everything! I had guesses about what was going on, but there was no possible way I could ever have predicted what was really going to happen and I love that about the book! This review is short and to the point so I don't give anything away, just know this was engaging, scary, interesting and addictive.

If you are looking for a scary paranormal mystery that has LGBT representation this is the perfect choice. A large majority of the characters in the story are openly bisexual, which added some relationship drama (in the form of unrequited love and potential love triangles) on top of the spooky problems. 

The ending was not really an ending, but instead opened up a ton more conflicts and questions that I will look forward to delving into in the next book in the series.