The Shuddering

Ahhhh, this was such an unexpected 5 star read! I usually love monster horror novels like this to be a little more ambiguous, but this is a pretty straight forward monster slasher horror novel that reads like a horror movie and it's just so intense and so fast paced and I LOVED IT. At first, I wasn'......more

Ryan, his twin sister Jane, and three friends are off to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado for a three-day vacation. Snowboarding, skiing, good times before they part ways for a few years. Meanwhile, people are turning up missing in the surrounding area. No bodies, just blood soaked snow. A freak......more

The story started strong with a remote cabin and its inhabitants hunted down by eerie monsters. But when a group of unsympathetic young people enter the scene everything turns down. The promising story turns sour and primarily focuses on the relationship between them. From then on it dragged and did......more

After reading all of Ania's novels I was certain that she has that something. A certain spark that promises good reads in the fold of the velvet curtain covering the opening of each mysterious plot she plans, each idea is so distinct and worth the reader's time that I can't wait to see what else she......more

The Shuddering reads, to me, exactly what it feels like to watch a horror movie where the main cast of characters are a group of friends being stalked by a monster - or monsters in this case. Not a slasher, like Nightmare On Elm Street, a creature feature, like The Descent. But set in a snowy landsc......more