Harrow Lake

Today’s post is on Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis. It is 299 pages long and is published by Dial Books. The cover is grey with a blurred out picture of a girl in the center and the title underneath. There is some foul language, no sex, and some violence in this novel. The intended reader is someone who likes YA horror and thrillers. The story is told from first person close of the main character, Lola. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- The daughter of a horror film director is not afraid of anything--until she gets to Harrow Lake.

Things I know about Harrow Lake:

1.It's where my father shot his most disturbing slasher film.

2.There's something not right about this town.

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker--she thinks nothing can scare her.

But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she's quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she's never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father's most iconic horror movie was shot. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map--and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away.

And there's someone--or some thing--stalking her every move.

The more Lola discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. Because Lola's got secrets of her own. And if she can't find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her. 

Review- An intense and interesting thriller with a horror vibe. Lola has lived her whole life in her father’s shadow. From being kept with him at all times to having him take her stories and change them into something else. Lola has never been without him. Until after a fight about a move, Lola comes back to their apartment and finds him bleeding on the floor. That’s where we start with this novel and it never lets up. Lola is shipped off to stay with a grandmother she never knew about, in the town where her parents met, and the last place her mother was ever seen alive. The horror in this novel is of the creeping kind and it is very atmospheric. Some of the twists I saw coming but the big one about Lola herself I did not. I had a great time reading this novel and I would recommend it for horror/thriller fans. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.