Title:
The
Cresswell Plot
Genre:
Young
Adult, Fiction, Mystery
Publisher:
Disney-Hyperion
Publishing
date: June 7th 2016
Pages:
272
Rating
★★★★☆
Hi, today I’m reviewing a book I read a while ago, The Creswell Plot by Eliza Wass, this
book seems to have been published also under the name In the Dark, In the Woods with a different cover, but it’s the same
book.
This book tells us the
story of Castella Cresswell and
her five siblings—Hannan, Caspar, Mortimer, Delvive, and Jerusalem. For years,
their world has been confined to their ramshackle family home deep in the woods
of upstate New York. They abide by the strict rule of God, whose messages come
directly from their father.
Slowly, Castley and her siblings start to test the boundaries
of the laws that bind them. But, at
school, they’re still the freaks they’ve
always been to the outside world. Marked by their plain clothing. Unexplained
bruising. Utter isolation from their classmates. That is, until Castley is
forced to partner with the totally irritating, totally normal George Gray, who
offers her a glimpse of a life filled with freedom and choice.
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Castley’s world rapidly expands beyond the woods she knows so
well and the beliefs she once thought were the only truths. She discovers that
his father might be lying to her family with his imposing religion, and that
all her family might be at risk because her father makes a chilling
announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. With
time running out on all of their lives, Castley must expose the depth of her
father’s lies and come up with a plan to save her family from her father’s
grasp.
The Cresswell Plot shows the reader an insight of what is like to
live under a controlling father who is also a religious fanatic, not a very
good combination. Due to this you cannot expect regular characters. The Creswell
family is definitely odd and hard to relate to if you haven’t live in a
situation like theirs, but still is easy to feel some empathy towards them. They
all have strange fears and attitudes that their father has imposed on them.
