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Crossroads por Laurel Hightower
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Crossroads (edição 2020)

por Laurel Hightower (Autor)

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"How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris's life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris's hand onto her son's roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son's ghost, or is it something else--something evil? Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again."--Provided by publisher.… (mais)
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Título:Crossroads
Autores:Laurel Hightower (Autor)
Informação:Off Limits Press LLC (2020), 124 pages
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Oooooooo boy. This hit close to home. Eerie novella that was engaging and did an excellent job getting into the emotional impact of loss. A quick read but impactful. ( )
  HauntedTaco13 | Dec 29, 2023 |
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it was fine ( )
  chardenlover | Jun 14, 2023 |
Grief addicts unite! This book should come with a free therapy session, or at the very least a box of tissues. What a heavy read. I could feel the sorrow and pain coming off the pages as I read, and after finishing it I was completely wrecked.

Briefly, this book is about a single mother named Chris who recently lost her only son, Trey, to a tragic car accident. After accidentally cutting herself at the spot he was killed, Trey suddenly appears in the middle of the night before fading away again. Desperate to see her son, Chris makes a crossroads deal with the devil and begins down the dangerous road of "how much would you sacrifice for a loved one?"

I've always said that horror involving children became much more horrifying once I had kids of my own, and this story is certainly no exception. As a parent I can't imagine going through what happens to Chris. The moments of brief interaction with her dead son, the agonizing when he disappears again - all of it hit me hard. Chris goes to some intense lengths in the book, but at the same time I can understand her reasoning for the tough decisions that she makes (decisions that grow increasingly grim as the story progresses).

The writing is excellent, tone and mood both handled with deft precision. The story begins with a consistently wistful/forlorn tone, before devolving into a mix of fearful desperation and calculated resolve. And all the while the grief (that's the keyword for this review) is palpable. It's in the power of the storytelling that from the very first unknowing sacrifice Chris makes you know exactly where this book is headed, but you also can't look away at the same time. I will say there's a dark ambiguity to the final act of the book, a wonderful building of dread, and a twist that left me cold fear I still can't shake.

I loved the stripped down nature of the book, in that there are only a few characters and essentially two locations. I also liked the format of the plot, with its back and forth rotation between the place of Trey's death and and Chris's house. Every time Chris goes to the location of the accident you're anticipating with grim fascination what she's going to do, and every time she returns home you hold your breath to see if it worked. This is not a book of jump scares and over the top gore (although there are some very graphic scenes), but rather one of subtle horror and mounting dread.

My only complaint, small as it is, involves the secondary character Dan. I appreciate how he allows himself to be a selfless refuge for Chris's varying temperament, but I couldn't help getting frustrated at his enabling tenancies (especially when he fully sees the road she's on). He's certainly an interesting character, just one that I wanted more action from.

Overall this is an incredible novella, and one of my favorite reads of the year so far! It's certainly a different kind of horror, but I'm a big fan of stories that focus on the human emotions and relationships (think Haunting of Hill House or Hereditary). Go check it out! (4.5 stars rounded up for Goodreads) ( )
  Reading_Vicariously | May 22, 2023 |



Laurel Hightower's novella, 'Crossroads' has tremendous power. It brings fresh meaning to the term nightmarish because everything in this novella feels real, even the things that rationally can't be real and agency seems both imperative and impossible

The story takes place at a literal, metaphorical and emotional crossroads. Chris, the grieving mother of a teenage son who died two years ago, is perfectly aware that, while she believes she's making rational choices, she might simply be delusional. She believes she has a chance to resurrect her son. She doesn't know how any of it works or why it's happening and she has no way of finding out. So, guided by the hope of saving her son and driven by a fear of losing him by failing to act, she sets out on a path of escalating sacrifice.

The surface narrative - what Chris chooses to do and what its consequences are - is gripping and so emotionally powerful that I was torn between needing to know the outcome and fearing that I would flinch at what I discovered. Chris not only becomes real but you can see that she has finally reached a point where, after years of grief and depression, her life is worth living. You can also see that her need for her son is driving on a path that could cost her everything. I became so invested in Chris that there were times when I just wanted to shout out - 'Don't Do This.'

What makes the novella outstanding is that, in addition to the tension of the surface narrative, we have a meta-narrative about motherhood and identity and sacrifice that is powerful in its own right and we have an alternate narrative that places Chris as a victim of something dark and supernatural.

I think Hightower's achievement is that she doesn't make us choose between these three narratives. She makes them all seem true, at least some of the time.

This isn't an easy book to read. There's too much pain in it for it to be a book I could consume in one session, even though the ebook is only ninety-six pages. Yet I kept coming back to it and it kept getting better.

I highly recommend this one to you.
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  MikeFinnFiction | Mar 28, 2021 |
Bursting with grief that is almost palpable, this book is about our journey with Chris through the recent loss of her son.

Losing a child is something unfathomable to my mind. If I even try to think about it, my mind sort of skitters away. I don't want to face something that bad, even if it is only in my imagination. But Chris, the main character in Crossroads, lives with it for every minute of every day. Then, the seed of a possibility, the merest breath of a thought that maybe, just maybe, she could do something about it. Does she? (Would you?) You'll have to read this to find out!

Keeping this short and sweet, this novella was phenomenal. In such a small amount of pages, Ms. Hightower wraps us up in Chris' grief and her hopes and we are rooting for before we even realized what happened. It's the power and clarity of the writing that does it. It settles around us in a dark cloak and before we know it, we're surround by it, immersed in it. Those are always the best stories, don't you think?

My highest recommendation!

Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/2Ed2k4k

*I bought this novella with my hard earned cash. So should you.* (less) ( )
  Charrlygirl | Aug 19, 2020 |
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"How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris's life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris's hand onto her son's roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son's ghost, or is it something else--something evil? Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again."--Provided by publisher.

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