And of course the mountain lodge is haunted, because of course it used to be an orphanage, and of course a lot of people died there.Īt any moment, I swear I was going through an Until Dawn experience, and I was half-waiting for someone to start screaming about wendigos. She seems to like this scenery–but then of course it makes sense, since she’s currently living in a northern New England state.ĭead Voices continues the misadventures of Olive, Coco, and Brian only this time, they’re stuck in a snow-buried mountain lodge with nowhere to run. Especially when it comes to the sounds of voices in the middle of the night outside a wintry cottage. I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself, especially knowing that Katherine Arden does a really good job of freaking me out at night. Maybe the ghosts need their help–or maybe not all ghosts can or should be trusted. Voland’s help, Ollie, Coco, and Brian reach out to the dead voices at Mount Hemlock. Ollie, Coco, and Brian want to trust him, but Ollie’s watch, which once saved them from the smiling man, has a new cautionary message: BEWARE. Voland, a mysterious ghost hunter, arrives in the midst of the storm to investigate the hauntings at Hemlock Lodge. Coco is convinced she has seen a ghost, and Ollie is having nightmares about frostbitten girls pleading for help. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined to make the best of being snowed in, but odd things keep happening. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire.

Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. Enjoyed this book better than the first! It was also scarier IMHO, but ghosts trump scarecrows, so…

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