Our Rating:
Library Formats:
Book
Age Group:
Young Adult
Genre:
Horror
Fir by Sharon Gosling was visually brilliant and deliciously creepy; I really didn’t want things to end. One thing that really stood out to me about the story is the main character’s perspective. We as the reader don’t know the character’s name, how old they are, if they are a boy or a girl.
My personal thoughts from reading Fir were that the main character’s voice that I could hear in my mind was a 14/15-year-old male. The story is set in the north of Sweden where the main character and their parents arrive in an old plantation house surrounded by hundreds of trees. But from the minute they arrive, it’s very clear that someone doesn’t want them there.
Honestly, don’t read this book when you are alone in the house, one of the characters Dorothea was such a miserable grump but did play quite a huge role in Fir. I say the age range for readers who want to read Fir is 15+ primarily because of some of the graphic descriptions of most of the scary events that happen throughout.