In the story, we follow Hallie, Gustav, Naira and Angelo as they are forced to come into their school – Dread Wood High on a Saturday for detention. Scooby Doo, talk about my sweet raptors (and then decided who is who and finding out who really are the raptors), Jurassic Park/World, there is mention of anime (Gustav, yas), Harley Quinn, and more. I love watching her groups of characters find increasingly inventive ways of dealing with the situations they find themselves in.

They are having detention on this Saturday, you know, a few hours of doing stuff because of things they did. I read and reviewed this book for a blog tour, so thank you to the blog tour organiser for having me on this tour. I'm really looking forward to seeing the gang in future books, with the promise of an unusual app / hide and seek game in the next book. My favourite part of the book was when they were trying to defeat the spiders and Angelo is finding out what's happening. I like how amidst the horror there was laughter (particularly from Gus who is a funny character) and friendship.

The pacing of this story was perfect so that it kept me on my toes and although the story wasn’t particularly realistic it made sense. Both the cover and synopsis gave off extremely creepy vibes, and to say I couldn’t wait to get stuck into it would be an understatement. All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! There's the main character, Angelo comes from a working-class family and is strong-willed and headstrong, naturally taking leadership where he can, but he doesn't necessarily excel in school.

If you love middle-grade books with that spooky/creepy factor, a fantastic group of teens that come together and learn from their mistakes all while having each other’s backs, a school setting and some very surprising twists, you should definitely pick up this book. I kept hoping for a plot twist since the “bad guys” were plain evil from the start and the other scary parts were stupid, not explained with magic or science, it just happened. Middle Grade Horror is a sub-genre that I’ve been meaning to read more of for a while so, when I found out about Dread Wood I was instantly both intrigued and drawn into it.Check out Jennifer Killick’s assembly video where she shares children’s books she’s enjoyed, where she loves to read, her top tips for enjoying reading and more! What I will say is that this was definitely a kind of “found family” vibe because the characters kind of hate each other at the start, or at the very least are trying to avoid each other like the plague.