Blurb Blitz + Review + #Giveaway: Resthaven by Erik Therme @ErikTherme @GoddessFish

Resthaven

by Erik Therme

GENRE: YA suspense

BLURB:

The last thing Kaylee wants to do is participate in a childish scavenger hunt—especially inside the abandoned retirement home on the edge of town. When she finds a bruised, deaf boy hiding inside one of the rooms, she vows to lead him to safety . . . only to discover the front doors are now padlocked, and her friends are nowhere to be found. Kaylee is about to learn that not everything that goes ‘bump in the night’ is imaginary, and sometimes there are worse things to fear than ghosts.

Excerpt:

The dog was taller than our knees and its skin clung to its ribs, as if it hadn’t eaten in days. A half-chewed leash hung from its collar, and its ears and muzzle were pulled back. There was no question we were unwelcome guests.

“Kaylee?” Anna said.

The dog began to growl. We both took a step back.

“Do we run?” Anna rasped.

“Are you crazy?” I whispered fiercely. “We can’t outrun a dog.”

“What do we do?”

A sound rose and died in my throat. All I could see was the dog’s teeth. Last year I had been bitten by a stray in our neighborhood, and I still had the ankle scar to prove it.

The dog let out a wracking bark, startling us both back another step. My eyes skipped to Anna, then to the open doors on each side of us.

“We can hide inside the rooms,” I said, speaking low and fast. “When I count to three, run into the room beside you and slam the door.”

Anna’s grip on my wrist tightened. “I can’t—”

“You can,” I hissed. “If both of us go for opposite rooms, the dog won’t know which one to follow. That will confuse it and give us another second of time.”

“Another second?”

“Just get inside the room,” I said.

The dog lowered its head, shifting its muddy eyes from Anna to me. It knew who the threat was.

“One,” I whispered.

“Don’t make me do this,” Anna said.

My stomach knotted. “Two . . .”

The dog burst forward in a shambling run.

My Review:

Kaylee mom and dad have broken up so Kaylee and her mom have moved to a new town. Kaylee hates being away from her dad and the friends she left behind. But she has made a new friend in her new town. Anna invites her to go to a party at a friend’s house and her mom said she could go even though she didn’t want to go. Her mom thinks it is time she got out of the house and stops moping around and has some fun.

What they never counted on was that there was not going to be a “party” at a friend’s house. The “party” was a scavenger hunt at a retirement home that had been shut down. Kaylee didn’t want to participate in a scavenger hunt she just wanted to go home.

But when Kaylee and some more girls are locked in the retirement home they don’t exactly have a choice. While Kaylee is trying to find a way out she finds a little boy playing in one of the rooms. Kaylee is like why is a little boy playing inside a retirement home and how did he get in? While Kaylee is trying to figure all of this out in her head she is also trying to figure out who that old man is that is chasing after her and what he wants with her.

After finding out that the little boy is with the old man she conjuror up all kinds of reasons in her head as to why an old man has a little boy in a retirement home. she thinks that the old man has kidnapped him. Now Kaylee and the other girls are not only trying to save themselves but now they have a little boy to look out for.

What will happen to Kaylee and her new friends now? Will they all get out alive? Can Kaylee save the little boy from the old man? Is rescue on the way? Does anyone know they need rescuing? Does anyone even know where they are? Who is the little boy and why is he in a retirement home with an old man? Who is the old man? Will he hurt Kaylee and her friends? All the answers can be found in the book. So pick up your copy of Resthaven today to find out. 

I would have to say that I found Resthaven to quiet intriguing. There are lots of corners to turn in the halls of Resthaven and I felt as if that was exactly what I was happening when I was reading Resthaven because it took you on so many turns you didn’t know what was going to happen next but you sure wanted to know. It kept me on my toes from beginning to end wanting to what was going to happen next. The ending was one that I never anticipated it blew me away. I want to know what happens next. I hope Kaylee and her new friends have more adventures to go on because I don’t think Kaylee or Corbin’s journey is over or at least I hope not. I need more now please.

AUTHOR BIO:

Erik Therme has thrashed in garage bands, inadvertently harbored runaways, and met Darth Vader. When he’s not at his computer, he can be found cheering for his oldest daughter’s volleyball team, or chilling on the PlayStation 4 with his thirteen-year-old. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa—one of only seven places in the world UNESCO has certified as a City of Literature.

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