“I will find true love, and everything will be okay. I will find true love, and everything will be okay…” she chanted.They say be careful what you read. Something is wrong. Something is very wrong. It can happen to anyone. This is just four teenagers’ story.Aubrey Golding hates her face, her body, and is devastated after Nathan Silva leaves her. Alone, suicidal, and desperate for love, she … desperate for love, she discovers a book called Something and unknowingly links others to a dark and terrifying curse that is beginning to consume her.
Nathan is glad to be moving on with someone new and can hardly believe what is happening now. Wild child and amateur porn star, Bella Broadhurst, loves bullying that “emo whore” Aubrey with the other girls, but mostly she loves partying, hookups, and plain ol’ drama when terror arises. And Kendra Coke is just a new teen mother working on a delicate relationship when things start becoming utterly bizarre.
Chilling sleep disturbances and figures hiding in the corners of their rooms are just warnings of what is to come. Be careful what you read, they say. Tread carefully.
“Extremely well-written and almost Gothic in nature, Something (Wisteria #1) is horror at its best. While Lamb borrows heavily from the movie, The Ring, she puts her own spin on it. Reading could kill you? You bet! Horror doesn’t get any scarier than books out to murder people.” -Bestselling author N.N. Light
“5 out of 5 stars for this excellent, suspenseful horror novel, and I am already looking forward to the next book in the series.” -OnlineBookClub.org
“I have never read anything like this book before, and I’m sure I won’t read anything similar for a long time.”
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Aubrey has a personality disorder. After breaking up with her boyfriend, he’s all she can think about. All she wants is to be loved and finds herself weeping nearly every night, holding a book called Something in her arms. As the story progresses, and Aubrey begins to grow more desperate to find herself, bad things begin to happen to those around her. Something has come to town.
I think my favorite part about this book was how relatable the author was able to make the characters. So many of them had more flaws than they did redeeming traits, and I think that’s what made them feel even realer. Especially Aubrey. I wanted to feel pity for her, I really did, but her personality was so off-putting that it was hard to feel any real sympathy for her throughout the story.
I loved the mystery and suspense throughout the story though, and while it has some rather dark moments, I liked the overall feeling of the book. In a way, it reminded me of a classic slasher film with characters who are unlikable enough for you to both root for as well as to not be sad when bad things begin to happen to them.
Definitely different from my normal read.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
**I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review**
If you don’t like deeply flawed characters or things that go bump in the night, then Something is not for you. However, if you do, then for you, Something, may just be perfect! It is chalked full of flawed characters making questionable decisions, suspense, and creepiness.
When reading this story, you just have to go along with what the characters are doing. It’s sort of like watching a scary movie and the main character goes into a creepy house and doesn’t turn on any lights. The whole time you are yelling at the screen going “what are you thinking!” Something is no different. If I hadn’t been reading the book in public, then I most likely would have had a running commentary that mostly consisted of the following: Why are you doing this? Are you stupid? Do you just want something bad to happen?
After resigning myself to just go along with the story, I found that I actually kind of liked it. The characters aren’t perfect, not even close, however, they aren’t supposed to be. I don’t really know if you are even supposed to really like the characters. What was happening around them was what I found really intriguing, and it’s what kept me reading. I just had to know what was going to happen next, and how everything was going to play out. The details that Miss Lamb included throughout the story were amazing and I think she described things perfectly. Every time she mentioned those delectable truffles, my mouth would water! Seriously the descriptions were that good!!
I’ve put off reviewing this book for several days, because what I read doesn’t match up with the majority of the reviews I’m reading for this book. I hate second guessing myself like that, but it happens when one decides to review books. The author asked for an honest review, and she’ll get it, not because I feel an obligation to her, but because I feel an obligation to other readers.
This book is a mess. Another reviewer described a particular character as being superfluous, and that, besides being a great word, is an apt word for basically 75% of the characters in this story, who seemed to have no other point than to give Aubrey something else to whine about. (Spoilers) The side stories involving Bella and Kendra felt like filler with no other purpose than to give the author characters to kill off. And their deaths were oddly chosen. Kendra, who was one of the few characters in the book who wasn’t completely obnoxious, died a horribly violent and horrifying death, while Bella, who was cast at the “mean girl”, died relatively quietly of an owie on her hoohah. Then there’s Avril; a random girl who read the same book as Aubrey, and then drank herself to death at Bella’s party. What was the point of introducing her at all? Her death didn’t seem to change anything or have any kind of real impact on Bella, so why include it? (End Spoilers)
Something isn’t a terrible book. The writing itself is pretty good, but the story lacked the cohesiveness needed to make it a good read. The author needs to embrace the “less is more” way of thinking, and do some brutal editing. I read it through to the end, because I don’t think it’s fair to review an unfinished book, but I would not recommend it to anyone else.