The Prisoners of Stewartville

I tend to be very selective with indie genre offerings, since a lot of them leave so much to be desired. This one, though, was surprisingly good.
It could have veered YA, given the seventeen-year-old protagonists but it didn't. It could have gone tedious in the vein of white trash crime, but it didn't. Avoiding many easy traps, this lean novel stuck to its basic premise of building and maintaining a thoroughly and eerily claustrophobic environment in the shape of a small prison town. There is evil all around Stewartville, creeping in closer and closer, but the true nature of it takes a while to reveal itself. Sometimes the most monstrous things look back from the mirror.
A tough-as-nails coming-of-age story with a twist and solid fun for genre fans. Thanks Netgalley.

This is a fast read but so good! I love small town horror and this author did a great job at captivating the creepy small town feel and dark secrets. I will definitely be on the lookout for more by this author.

Found another small town horror!
This one is really good, first time read for this author, and I will be looking forward to more.

This whole book builds on the creepy factor of small towns, and dark corners of humanity, and dark secrets of the past.

I come from a small town, and while I don't think we had anything like this, it still struck way to close to home, small towns, haunted or not, feel the same when you know how dark they really are beneath the surface.