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My name is Cyn and thanks for stopping by. Today I am hosting my short (sometimes very) spoiler free, no nonsense thoughts about a book I've recently read.
Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot’s Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter, Jessica, are shunned by her upper-crust family and the local residents. Privately, desperate characters visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them—until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, Ella Louise and Jessica are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise’s burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses.
Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it’s told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his childhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a ’70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek. Amber’s experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the ’90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt.
Amber’s best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her—or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again . . .
Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it’s told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his childhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a ’70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek. Amber’s experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the ’90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt.
Amber’s best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her—or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again . . .
I'd just like to say how much I love the cover of this book for this edition. It totally fits.
And I did love this book...until the end. But I'll get to that.
What I really liked about this book was the story within a story for lack of a better way of putting it. I was hooked from the beginning and I really liked Amber. I found myself rooting for her throughout the whole book.
The Remaking is nicely plotted and paced...until it wasn't.
Sadly for me the ending (mostly)fell apart and seemed rushed and I don't think I completely understood the last pages?
That said-this really was an enjoyable book and if you are looking for something a bit different in the horror genre this a fresh edition.
* In retrospect, upon thinking more about this ending, I think that the pace changed the tension level (very effective). Plus, I just didn't want the story to end.
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