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Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is…

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1 author picked Winterset Hollow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Horror novels are usually not my thing, but Winterset Hollow was so imaginative and original that I couldn't wait to see what would happen next.

The book combines our fondest memories of the books we grew up with, about human-like animals and their funny lives. But it considers what might happen if we found ourselves in their world. I expect this novel was inspired by books like Watership Down, Animal Farm, and Alice in Wonderland, but as though they were written by Stephen King!

Some of the secondary characters were two-dimensional and contrived, but the central cast was…

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