So Little Time!

I'm reading 3 books right now....while attending law school. I don't know what I was thinking! But the books I'm reading provide an escape for awhile; it's just hard to read them as quickly as I would like.
My TBR pile is getting bigger as well if that's possible. I hope I make a dent in it someday!

Netgalley

I found Netgalley through Goodreads, and decided to sign up. I'm so glad I did! 

And the Trees Crept In

Where to begin?!
I had a hard time tracking this book down, and I finally found it on the library site. I flipped through it, and I was instantly put off by the writing style. There are pages of notebook entries (which I don't like in books), and words that are in rather large print in random places. Based on the formatting alone, I put it at the bottom of the TBR pile.
The due date was coming up in 3 days when I finally decided I should go ahead and try to read it.
I should have read it as soon as I got it. I couldn't put it down. It took me 2 days to read it and I loved the story. It was creepy, but also very sad.
Silla and Nori runaway from their abusive home to La Baume; their mother's childhood home where her sister, Aunt Cath, now lives. At first everything is sunny and happy, but of course that doesn't last long. Aunt Cath's sanity is questionable, and Silla starts to question her own when the garden begins dying and she swears the trees in the woods are moving closer to the manor. Then a strange boy appears seemingly out of nowhere, and Silla's narrative becomes questionable as her focus is to protect her sister Nori from the demons in the house--especially the Creeper Man, a long shadow figure with no eyes and a horrible smile.
The story becomes very odd and unstable honestly before it wraps back around and makes any sense. It is written so vividly that I can't help but wonder if that is how one acts if they are truly going mad.
Anyone who enjoys horror will be enthralled in this book. The descriptions of the Creeper Man made chills go down my back and I found myself looking around my house. Little noises made me jump when I was reading, and books do not do that to me often!

4/5 stars for me...and my issues are with the formatting of the book, not the story itself.