The School Library Journal reviewed the second book in the series, favorably comparing it to the video game Corpse Party and the novel Another. Common Sense Media gave The Girl from the Well a favorable review, writing that 'There's more heart and a message here than the usual fare, and it's a mesmerizing read.' The Boston Globe gave the first entry a predominantly favorable review as a 'gruesome page-turner'. A life for a life.Ĭritical reception for the series has been mostly positive.

But Tark must try it is after all, an eye for an eye. When creatures of the earth start stirring, Okiku is weakened and cannot help Tark, as earth weakens water, and Okiku is a spirit of water.

She managed to help eradicate the entity that had been plaguing him, but when a friend of Tark's disappears in Japan's famous suicide forest, Tark must go to Japan with his cousin Callie to find her. It's an unhappy existence and one that seems like it will be forever unchanging until she meets Tark, a teenage boy whose body contains evil that's only barely contained by tattoos that cover his body.Īfter the events of the last book, Tark has now become Okiku's partner. As her own life was stolen from her by a murderer, Okiku devotes her afterlife to finding and killing anyone that has taken the life of a child, as well as helping other ghosts find the eternal rest that she has continually been denied. Okiku is a restless spirit that has been wandering the earth. The first book, The Girl from the Well, was published through Sourcebooks Fire on Augand was followed by The Suffering, which released on September 8, 2015. The Girl from the Well is a young adult series of novels by Rin Chupeco.

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