9-year-old Trisha McFarland goes on a hike with her mother and older brother. Along the way her mother is constantly arguing with her older brother. Trisha is sick of listening to them, so she wanders off from the path to have some privacy. Then she realizes that she needs to pee so she goes even further into the forest. She thinks that as long as she can hear the voices of other tourists she can’t get lost, but that turns out to be a huge mistake. As she is going back to the path she realizes that she has got no idea where she is, so she starts looking for the right way, but she goes even further into the deep forest.
That is when her fight for survival starts. With only a little source of food and water, she tries to survive in the forest. The only company she has is a walkman radio on which she listens to her favourite baseball team, the Red Sox. Will it be enough for her to survive in a forest where something dangerous is hiding in the shadows, watching her every move as it wants to rip her throat apart.
This book is one of my favourite books written by Stephen King. The thing that I like about this book is that it makes you feel like you are the one in the forest fighting for survival. I never thought that a book could scare me this much. You know that kind of book when you just one to rip the page off, because of all the thrill that is going on in it? Well than this is that kind of book. If you are a fan of mystery, thriller or horror than put everything down and go read this book.
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