Marc E. Fitch

The story begins with a funeral, and though it is literal I also took it as a symbol of the death of a friendship that never quite survived the events that occurred a decade earlier. Four best friends had set out for a last hurrah, before one of them tied the knot. They returned forever changed. Now the four best friends are merely three. Three who struggle to live with the secret and yet will do whatever it takes to make sure it stays hidden. It is with this goal that they set out to Coomb's Gulch, a forsaken and desolate area where they once hunted but which now holds less of nature and more of the supernatural. These earlier pages moved a bit slow for my taste but once we passed the heavy atmosphere of the road trip and reached the destination the fear factor kicked up several notches and I was hooked. You can't go to Coomb's Gulch and expect to live happily ever after, but God help you if you get out the first time and go back for more.

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Four friends. A dark, hidden secret. For 10 years, Jonathan and his friends haven't breathed a word about what happened on their hunting trip to the Adirondacks. It was Jonathan's bachelor weekend at a remote cabin...a time to let loose, hunt in the forest, be men, be free one last time..... Things went horribly wrong, haunting them all for years. Then they decide to go back to the cabin in the woods.

Mistake.

Something is waiting for them....

What a creepy story! I loved it! I think everyone has a moment in their lives that they wish they could go back and erase. Most aren't quite as bad as the event that ruins these men's lives. The event they have to hide..... I can't even imagine the horror, the guilt, the worry. It would never go away. Then add in some evil....and a very remote, wild, yet beautiful place....Yikes!

The slow build and suspense are perfect. The characters painfully normal. It just shows that normal people can do abnormal things....make huge mistakes....ruin their lives in the blink of an eye. It makes for a very realistic, very scary story! Perfect read for a chilly, rainy spring day!

This is the first book by Marc Fitch that I've read. I'm definitely going to read more! This story was awesomely dark!

**I voluntarily read a review copy of this book from Flame Tree Press. All opinions expressed are entirely my own.**… (más)