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Title: The Devils You Know

Author: M. C. Atwood

Narrator: Lori Gardner, Ruffin Prentiss III, Eddie Lopez, Jeanine Bartel, Madeleine Maby, T. Ryder Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction - or that a murder of crows died upon its completion, their carcasses turning the land black. If anyone did believe it all, there's no way River Red High would offer a field trip there for the senior class.

Five very different seniors on the trip - Violet, Paul, Ashley, Dylan, and Gretchen - have reasons beyond school spirit for not ditching the trip. When they're separated from the group, they discover that what lies within Boulder House is far more horrifying than any local folklore. To survive, they'll have to band together in ways they never could have imagined and ultimately confront the truths of their darkest selves.

Members Reviews:

Quite Upsetting

I went into M.C. Atwoodâs debut, The Devils You Know, expecting a creepy read to have me jumping at every noise. While there is a pretty decent creep factor the book failed to keep my attention. True, there were moments where I was hooked but then there were moments where I was rolling my eyes, and those moments far outweighed the rest.

In this book we have five points of view, all teenagers from different walks of life. Thereâs the vapid popular girl, the shy girl no one notices, the Goth boy, the athlete boy, and then the girl with an attitude. Itâs like The Breakfast Club in that sense, yet here, everyone has their own deeply hidden secret. These five teens go on a field trip in order to get out of finals for school and itâs at a local haunted house, of sorts. The house is a museum of the bizarre, there are rooms with hundreds of dolls, its own little town like thing, itâs weird. It reminded me of our local Magic House which is essentially a HUGE house of things to explore, learn, create, and play. But this house, was definitely not that house!

Truly, this has all the makings for a great horror story, but what basically had me wanting to throw the book across the room was the language. It felt like I was reading a really bad 90s teen horror movie in terms of language. I was half expecting someone, particularly Dylan, to say, âthatâs wiggedy wiggedy whack!â a phrase I canât even spell because of its outrageousness and outright corniness. Some of the things they say are just so out there, I know that no one was saying these kinds of things when I was a teenager, so I doubt the teens of 2017 are saying it either. I mean I get that this is a young adult novel, but the slang was just so ridiculous. I mean, I hardly used slang like this growing up. Itâs almost just too cliché. This seriously felt like 90s teen horror movie material, and maybe that was Atwoodâs intended goal. It just didnât click with me.

Outside of thatâthis wasnât that bad a novel. True I started skimming some things because the language was driving me bonkers. But the creepiness was pretty creepy. I mean the dolls are freaking running around the house and attacking people! And they just STARE at you! Totally creepy!! The characters are getting hurt really bad, blood and guts bad.