Gabriel Dylan Books

This is a book that is hard to put down and fans of Crater Lake will surely love this tale of a race against time to save the sleepy English town of Shiver Point from an unidentifiable and unnatural being.

Alex, a bit of a loner, and new to Shiver Point, chases down a strange light– possibly a meteorite – in the nearby forest in the middle of the night, hoping that it might provide the means to leave the town that he so dislikes. He is very surprised to see that he is not the only one there – several other ‘loners’ from his school have done the same, all with their own motives. However, they are soon having to work together to work out how to escape from the screams and shadows permeating from the trees. And so the reader is on a rollercoaster ride from the outset. Reluctant as they are to work together, the gang of five soon realise that they are the only ones in the town who see that seemingly unrelated but unusual occurrences, such as the presence of slugs and an unusual smell, are more than coincidences.

As the book progresses, the situation becomes more serious, scary and compelling and ultimately, the town and their families can only be saved by them – if they can work out how to do it in time! The writer, a fan of horror, adeptly intertwines humour within the action, as well as nods to the genre (‘isn’t it always the last one in the line that gets eaten first?’). With short, action-filled chapters, this book would make a great class-reader as well engage any reader who likes to be sitting on the edge of their seat.