VBT# Hemlock Veils - Jennie Devonport

 

 

Review: Hemlock Veils - Jennie Davenport - November 2014

Not sure what too expect with this book, I opened it up and started reading it. It started with  Elizabeth riding in her car and stopping outside of forests with a wad of cash. We learn that her father and brother is killed and she has nowhere left to go, the only place she can't go is back home to LA.  Her car breaks down just outside some woods and she meets Eustace, he is out trying to kill the beast that lurks through the forest at night. He offers to take her back to his small hometown of Hemlock Veils. Hemlock Veils is a town hidden away and run/owned by Mr. Clayton Jnr. There is something about this place, that makes Elizabeth want to stay as she feels drawn to it. With a bumpy ride , she finally starts to make a life for her but all will not be easy as she befriends the "beast" and discovers that he's not here to hurt, this doesn't go down well with the rest of the neighbourhood. As Elizabeth opens up to the "beast" , she discovers a dark secret and an ancient curse and that maybe all those fairytales, myths and legends that her father told her and Wilhem growing up may be reality after all and not fiction like she thought. 

I really enjoyed this book and found it in a way like a modern rendition of Beauty and the Beast which is one of my favourite tales.  This is one book that everyone should read and once you start you will not be able to put down.