
Title: Winterwood.
Author: Shea Ernshaw.
Format: Hardcover.
Publisher: Simon Pulse.
Page count: 319.
Release day: November 5th 2019.
Genre: YA, fantasy.
Rating: 2 stars.
What is it about? (Summary from GoodReads)
Be careful of the dark, dark wood…
Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some
say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.
Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She
and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with
the woods. And it’s this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver
Huntsman—the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks
ago—and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but
here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he’d been
missing.
But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver’s
presence. And it’s not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but
to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about
survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place.
What Nora doesn’t know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own—secrets
he’ll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn’t the only
one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.
For as long as there have been fairy tales, we have been warned
to fear what lies within the dark, dark woods and in Winterwood, New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, shows us why.

My thoughts:
Honestly if I did not love The wicked deep so much I probably would have DNF’ed this book. I did not care for the plot and the characters whatsoever..
Nora was a very confusing character.. For the first like 100 pages she felt as if she was 30 or something. But apparently she is high school age, and that made the relation between her and the other character feel very uncomfortable to me..
Both Nora and Oliver felt very flat, there wasn’t that much about them at all.
And the plot.. It was just kinda boring. Nothing really happened until the end of the book, but by that time I already didn’t care about any of it. The twist at the end was very predictable, it was one of the first things I guessed, so that definitely took from my enjoyment..
The wicked deep was also not action-packed (but definitely had more action than this one), but I was really hoping for the same atmospheric feeling. And I do think this book tried, but unfortunately failed.
I was just really hoping for some dark atmospheric witchy read, and it was not what I got.. Better luck next time I guess!
I do like Shea Ernshaw’s writing, reason for giving this 2 stars instead of 1.. Since I did love her first book, I will probably still check out the next thing she writes.
This is such a shame!! I hope you enjoy your next book better!!
It was.. I had such high hopes!
Sorry this one was such a disappointment! I have this one in my TBR because it was an Owlcrate book, still hope to get to it at some point. Hopefully you’ll like the next book better!
I hope you will enjoy it more than me!
I’ve seen quite a few people disappointed in this book. I have the gorgeous OwlCrate edition but I haven’t even cracked it yet. Might be one I just pass on.
The cover is very good indeed!
Sad to hear though that more people are disappointed..!
I liked the atmosphere of both of Shea Ernshaw’s books, but found both books to be just okay. Honestly with this one, I was more interested in the short snippets about the other Walker Women than I was about anything going on in the present. So, yeah, overall this was a disappointing read.
I liked those too! Even though they were not really necessary haha!
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy this one. I read the ARC and liked it well enough although there were issues. I heard the author made same changes before it was published, and I was hoping they would be for the better, but maybe not. I still need to read her first book. Good review.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 🙂
I hope you will enjoy The wicked deep!
I’ve heard some mixed things about this one, but I’m still hoping I’ll like it. I’m sorry it disappointed you.
I hope you like it more than I did!
You are the second person I’ve seen who didn’t like this one.
Oops..!
I feel the complete opposite, ha. I didn’t like The Wicked Deep but I enjoyed this one.
Haha always interesting to see different opinions on books!
Glad you did enjoy 🙂