This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

Title: This Wretched Valley
Author: Jenny Kiefer
Genre: Horror; Thriller

The general plot is simple enough, a group of friends goes out to document and climb a previously un-mapped rock face in rural Kentucky. The author herself rock climbs as a hobby but the reader needs no climbing knowledge to enjoy. She never slows the story down explaining too much or looses focus on the action.

Things begin to go wrong for the group even before they set up camp. It's no spoiler that they don't make it out of the woods alive, the story is just how their bodies wound up in such strange conditions.

The woods and it's ghosts are hungry and Kiefer spares not a single vivid, gory, detail in her writing. It's both beautiful and completely disgusting. This novel is not at all for the weak of stomach.

Anything more would spoil the fun, there are plenty of surprises to keep horror fans on their toes.

- Kate

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