Today Chloe Jacobs is taking over the blog and sharing some pretty creepy places with us. She wrote this book called Greta and the Goblin King, which has a ton of things that I love in it. Fairytale retellings (including Labyrinth and Hansel and Gretal) a kick ass lead and creepy creatures. Sounds like the perfect thing to get us all in the Halloween mood, if you ask me! So, you wanna know about the book? Here are the details...
While trying to save
her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in
herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where
humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side
that comes out with the eclipse.
To survive, Greta has hidden
her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what
she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin
king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines
her will to escape.
But Greta’s not the only one looking to get
out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the
portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty
creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she
and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be
safe from what follows her back...
And Now I'll Hand Things Over To Chloe!
So,
I know this bounty hunter. She’s pretty bad ass and she’s got a
habit of getting stuck in some crazy, unfortunate places.
Her
name is Greta, and currently she’s cooling her heels in a twisted
little world of ice and snow and monsters called Mylena.
After
four years there, trekking across the hardest and most brutal terrain
to be found in any world, you’d think that Greta wouldn’t be afraid of
anything or any place, right?
Well…
FIVE PLACES GRETA
WOULDN’T BE CAUGHT DEAD IN
5.
Waverly Hills Sanitorium – Greta’s not a big believer in ghosts,
but she’s seen too many things to completely discount the possibility
that they exist, and apparently this place saw tens of thousands of
deaths while in operation as a medical facility. Some people say that
satanic rituals have taken place there. I don’t know about you, but
a haunted insane asylum in any world would be on the top of my list of places to avoid.
4.
That underground research facility from Resident Evil – Like Greta,
Alice was totally kick ass, but I’m sure she never
wanted to be stuck down there with those undead zombie hive
freaks. Turn and run the other way if you can!
3. Island of the Dolls, New Mexico – Have you heard of this place?
There’s nothing like coming across an island covered in doll parts
hanging from the trees. Their severed limbs, decapitated heads, and
roll-back eyes are everywhere, and they would only remind Greta of all
the children who have been taken by the Lamia (a witch in Mylena who
hunts children to eat them). This place would freak her out completely.
The dolls all seem to be watching, waiting, and at night they’re even
creepier. The story is that the island’s only inhabitant found the
body of a dead girl and a floating doll, so he hung the doll in a tree
to appease her spirit. But one doll became hundreds, and they are all
still there.
2.
Frankenstein’s Castle – Imagine an entire village worth of people
racing toward you with pitch forks and burning torches, determined to
end you just because you’re different and they’re scared of what
they don’t understand. This is how Greta feels every day in Mylena.
Luckily, she just hasn’t gotten herself trapped in that castle yet
with no way out.
1.
Any place that smells like gingerbread – A delicious house made of
candy set against a backdrop of a tranquil forest retreat? A little
cave cut out of the rock in a beautiful forest? Neither of these may
seem like anyone else’s worst nightmare, but Greta lost everything
when she was lured into the woods by the sweet, delicious scent of gingerbread
and found herself face to face with a child-eating witch who hurled
her into a raging bonfire that dumped her into an alternate reality
from which there is no escape. Now her life is in danger every minute.
Every single creature transforms into a monster under the full moon
and will rip her to shreds without a thought…
You’d
probably feel the same way.
So, what are the scariest
places you can think of? Real or imagined?
And
thank you!! I’m so honoured to be invited as a guest on Christianna’s
blog! I LOVE it here and wish I could stay forever!
Stalk Chloe Here:
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Giveaway!
Chloe was awesome enough to offer up a signed copy of Greta and the Goblin King to one luck US/Canada winner. Though anyone can enter as long as The Book Depository ships to you. Sadly, an international winner won't be able to get the signed copy, but if you happen to be from the US/Canada then signed it will be! Just enter below for a chance to win your own copy! Have fun and good luck!
