Darren Charlton has done it again!! Timberdark is beautifully written and such wonderful descriptions and I can honestly see myself in the book alongside the characters.
The book follows Peter and Cooper and how they are adjusting to life and their new relationship after the events of Wranglestone. Peter and Cooper have a plan to find Returnees and offer them sanctuary at Wranglestone. This all goes to plan until they meet a Ghost Ranger and their plans are thrown in the air and they are forced to try a new life in a town. There’s something that’s just not quite right about the town though and Peter and Cooper grow apart over a single word… ‘Timberdark’.

As I’ve said, the book is beautifully written and I found myself being drawn straight back into Wranglestone like I’d never left. I’d recommend the book to ages 11+, there’s mild swearing. The book kept me on my toes and I just couldn’t stop reading.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

DNF

This decision left me a little heartbroken, not gonna lie. But I couldn't force myself to continue any further. The setting is so interesting but the conversations sometimes pulled me out of the story because of how unrealistic they felt.

For example, there was a convo between Peter and a girl he was trying to save near the start of the book but they started bantering and the banter I guess is supposed to be funny? But all it did was made me annoyed because all of them were supposed to be in danger at that moment. How do you still have the time to leisurely argue with someone when your lives are threatened??

Curious point: (This happened in the same scene as above btw) Cooper corrected Peter by saying that “Super Bowl /is/ soccer.” See, I'm not American, but isn't the Super Bowl supposed to be about football?

Anyway, thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free digital copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you so much for letting me read this, it did not disappoint! It continued right where it needed to and added depth, excitement and intrigue to an already enjoyable story.