Elle Grawl is quickly becoming a thrillerverse star as she writes yet another mind-boggling and harrowing psychological thriller that keeps you in the dark until the very last reveal.
What Still Burns has Alexis Blake returning to her Texas childhood town to settle some old debts after losing her family in a fire, a tragedy that has remained unresolved and buried underneath the town’s secrets. As soon as Blake returns, she’s subjected to mysterious and haunting events that tie directly to her family’s death. With Blake’s own mental health deteriorating, the narrative becomes a crafty whodunit that leaves no one out of the suspicious glances of the readers, not even the strong-headed protagonist.
What propels this narrative to the highest gear is Elle Grawl’s charm for writing rooted characters in realistic settings that all tie together to create a visceral reading experience where we express genuine concern for the protagonist as the tale gets darker and darker by the chapter. The small-town setting is captured in bright spotlight as we feel every grievance Alexis has feeling confined after having escaped it so long ago. The eerie feeling of something sinister lurking just behind the curtains of Alexis’s memories and buried deep by the townsfolk captivates you and chills you to your bones as you feel desperate to get to the bottom of the mystery and work it out along with Alexis. The tone is a somber balance between horror and thriller, adding elements of both in a streamlined fashion to keep the momentum going while building up to a haunting climax.
What Still Burns is the perfect summertime thriller for you to read in the shadows of the night, keeping the lamp on just so the evil doesn’t escape the pages of the well-crafted and constantly twisting story.
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