ZOOLOO’S BOOK TOURS | SACRIFICIAL WATERS | A.D. JONES

 

Zooloo's Book Tours

 

Hello Everyone!

Today, I join Zooloo's Book Tours again to have a look at the latest book by A.D. Jones, who I have previously reviewed on the blog with his book, Umbrate. However, this time it's........

SACRIFICIAL WATERS

A.D. Jones 

 

 

 About the Book

It's July 2022, Summer is in full swing and when a misfit group of urban explorers learn of a hidden cave secreted away in the middle of a forest in the Peak District,they put plans into action for their next adventure.

Finding the hidden grotto and its natural pool was a dream come true, but little did they know they had splashed head first into the sights of a centuries old threat.

A malevolent force of evil that will stop at nothing to end their lives
Will anyone survive the sacrificial waters?

 

Review

Whilst investigating a seemingly haunted youth hostel, urban ghost hunting explorers, Urb - Oborus discover an old map of an unknown cave in the forests of Derbyshire.

Gathering the group together, a number of the group find the location of the cave. What appears to be an idyllic setting, the group stumble upon a grotto in the hills covered in strange ancient markings.

 
The cool waters are inviting and some of the group decide that a little dip in the grotto’s pool. What they don’t bank on is that this leisurely dip will mark them out for death by a supernatural being that will hunt them one by one until they are all dead. In a race against time, the friends must find out why they have been targeted by the unnatural force and how they can stop it before it kills them all. 

Sacrificial Waters is an enjoyable, fast paced horror novel. Mixing elements of horror and urban fantasy, the book has enough violent deaths to satisfy an old gore hound like me and keep me reading. There are plenty of the regular horror tropes that I have read before, but they didn’t seem derivative in their execution, and they provided some wicked little hooks to keep me reading.

The plot itself is pretty simple, group disturb something evil; something evil tracks said group down, picking them off one by one; group find a way to stop evil. However, along with A.D. Jones’s prose and the blistering pace of the plot, the story is fresh and interesting, and as this was a short novel at just over two hundred pages it did not need much digestion at all as I ate it up.

The characters themselves start off as the kind of characters that you have met before. However they soon grow on you and you find yourself rooting for your favourite members of the group, and there are a few twists and turns in there that give all the characters life.

All in all, I enjoyed Sacrificial Waters. It had flashes of folk, possession and slasher movie vibes that kept me reading till the end.

 

 

 

 

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT A.D. JONES YOU CAN CATCH UP WITH HIM AT HIS INSTAGRAM PAGE. AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS BOOK SACRIFICIAL WATERS YOU CAN ADD IT TO YOUR GOODREADS LIST OR YOU CAN FIND IT ON AMAZON.