“Dark Roads” by Chevy Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Thriller. Location: The fictional rural town of Cold Creek in Northern British Columbia, Canada. Time: 2018-2019.-
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This is the story of some of the residents of Cold Creek. There’s outdoors loving Hailey, 17 and recently orphaned. She lives with her aunt, whose husband is a controlling police officer. Amber, an 18 year old flower child on her way to the Yukon. Offered a job in Cold Creek, she stays. And Beth, who arrives in Cold Creek looking for her sister. She’s 21 and troubled.-
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Cold Creek Highway runs beside the town, heading from the mountains to the coast. Young women disappear along this highway, and their bodies are not always found. Young women who should still be leading fairly innocent lives must worry instead about serial murders- the town and its surrounding environment puts them in danger.-

The author does an exceptional job in describing her impulsive teenage characters. She does not blame the victims. Instead, it’s a reminder that adults must support teenagers as they grow toward independence and self-sufficiency. These 3 young women are not supported.-
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From the prologue to the epilogue, this book has moments that make your heart beat faster from worry. Don’t expect Freddy Krueger thrills- these are reality-based, slow-building events. Stevens says she was inspired to write the book based on the true story of British Columbia’s Highway of Tears, where young women have gone missing for decades. At the end of this book, I cried for the fictional young women of Cold Creek, and for the real women of the Highway of Tears. It’s 5 stars from me. 🌵📚👩🏼‍🦳 St. Martin’s Press will publish this 8/3/2021.”

This one took me a bit to get into but once I did it flew by. I had definitely suspected who the guilty party was, yet at the same time, I was so disappointed that I ended up being right. I really liked that character and didn’t want the killer to be them. I thought the pace was really good and that the characters were all very well written and developed. I would’ve liked to have seen a happier ending for Beth and Jonny but really liked how it did end.

Cold Creek Highway is known to locals as the place that women go missing. Everyone knows you don’t hitchhike around there or even get out of your car. Although, Hailey knows all this, her home situation is dangerous and she decides she will live in the woods until she is of age to be able to move out on her own. At the same time, another girl goes missing and when her sister, Beth comes to town to try to get closure and answers, Cold Creek Highway just may claim more victims.
If you are looking for a thriller, look no further than Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens. I have been an avid fan of Chevy Stevens since her first book. When I heard she had a new book, Dark Roads, coming out, I was thrilled. She did not disappoint. As always, her world is disturbing, gritty and captivating. The characters are all incredibly real and Stevens once again ripped my heart out and made me enjoy it. I highly recommend this book!

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

Chevy Stevens is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read all her books and enjoyed them all. I think this one is my favorite!

Part thriller, part adventure, a book that caused me serious anxiety (but in a good way) and strong female characters I fell in love with. I didn’t want to put it down and leave them hanging, I felt so invested. Saying that, I think the character Wolf is the one who will stay with me.

And excellent story with an ending that satisfied. But, maybe someday we will meet these characters again?

Chevy Stevens has done it again!!!! What an amazing storyteller. Cancel your plans for the day and read this book instead. I inhaled it in one sitting.

Sooo many things about this book!! I love her books and was so excited to get this one from Netgalley. It was one of the best books I have read!! So many different twists and turns, family drama, secrets and lies, true friendship and a totally different twist that I did not see coming. This is a must read!!!!

Cold Creek Highway. For years young women have disappeared along this grisly stretch of highway. You learn very early do not hitchhike along this roadway, do not drive alone and keep your cellphone charged in case your car breaks down.
Hailey McBride is still reeling from the untimely death of her father when her sister and her aggressive and questionable police man husband decide to move her into their home for security. And it sure makes their life easier with a built in babysitter. Hailey befriends a young woman who works at a local diner and later takes a part time job there to get out from under the intense scrutiny of her sisters husband. After Haileys friend Amber becomes another victim of the Cold Creek Highway killer she plots to run away. She is certain her sisters husband is somehow involved in nefarious activities, his spying on her and her friends, his sexual innuendos all become too much.
Once Hailey flees, she meets Amber’s sister Beth who is determined to find out what happened to her sister.
A compelling, haunting story captured from today headlines.
The characters become just a bit predictable but it is still a dark and brilliant read.
4 stars Thanks NetGalley for the advanced copy.

I have been a fan of Chevy Stevens for years. Dark Roads has some twists and turns that you won't see coming. Who is killing all these women on the side of the highway? You'll be shocked to see who the killer turns out to be!

This book was too creepy to read at night and so creepy that I could not put it down! When Hailey loses her dad she has no options but to move in with her aunt and her husband, Vaughn, who is on the town’s police force. He is just inappropriate enough with her that she starts looking into his life. When she finds pictures and videos of girls on his computer, she makes a plan to leave. There’s a serial killer in the area that has been active recently. Where is Hailey? Has she fallen into the hands of the killer or is she stalking one herself! This was my guest read by this author and won’t be my last! I loved the gutsy characters and pace of the writing. Kudos!

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoy reading this author, and this one didn’t disappoint. Hitchhikers and women have disappeared or been brutally murdered for years on a dark stretch of road known as Cold Creek Highway. Hailey’s new guardian, a skeevy police officer named Vaughn (ugh, I shudder just typing his name, he was so horrible!), has warned her and warned her about the highway, so when he finds her biking it at night, he makes her face the consequences. Part mystery novel and part survival story, I read this all in one sitting. 3.5 rounded up to 4.

This was a good story that had a lot going on. The author led you to believe one path and then twisted it early to reveal the killer. I was glad to see that the story didn’t end right then but continued on to finish the story of the characters. Thanks for the opportunity to read this novel early.

Edge of my seat 2 day read! I loved the development of the characters and the plot - very fast moving. I enjoy Chevy’s style of writing - the drama - thriller and mystery!

As someone who loves Chevy Stevens, I was thrilled to see she had a new novel coming out! Dark Roads is an excellent suspenseful book! Cold Creek Highway is known for vicious murders of young women. Hailey should feel safer than anyone else-she just moved in with her step uncle cop after her father died. However, things feel wrong, and Hailey starts to suspect that things at home are not as they seem. Meanwhile, her best friend is being harassed by the police and is a suspect in the most recent killing. Who can Hailey trust? And who will be the next victim of Cold Creek Highway? This is a story of survival, fear, manipulation and sisterhood.
As always, Chevy Stevens hooked me from the first chapter and kept me invested all the way through!

I received an ARC of #DarkRoads by #ChevyStevens from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

I love this author. Still Missing was one of my favorite books. I did not enjoy this book as much as some of her others. The plot/storyline just seemed to drag along. The culprit was a surprise, but it did not keep me as engaged as some of her other novels.

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Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens was just as amazing as I hoped it would be. I wondered when Chevy was going to come out with a new novel, I have been eagerly anticipating this one and it didn’t disappoint.

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For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down… and never be seen again. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer.

One year later, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek to attend a memorial for the victims of the highway, but it might as well be one week for the amount of pain that Beth is still dealing with after her sister, Amber, was murdered the previous summer. Beth has quit university, is lying to her parents, and popping pills like Tic Tacs. Maybe this will finally bring her peace.

When she gets a job at a local diner where Amber once worked, she connects with people who knew her sister. Beth wants to find who killed her sister and put her own life back together, but as she gets closer to the truth, she learns that there is more than one person lying in Cold Creek.

Do yourself a favor and pre-order this one now! Due out in August.

Chevy Steven’s never disappoints!! I loved this book and did NOT see the ending coming at all! I really enjoyed the different character perspectives and the multiple issues addressed in the plot.

I have read, loved, and recommended all of Chevy Steven'ss books. That said, this one didn't do it for me. :( While parts were interesting, it just seemed that the story was long-winded where nothing was really happening. When we find out the truth, who did what and why, it was anticlimatic. I don't know if it was supposed to be some big twist ending, but it just fell flat for me.

Firstly I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review Dark Roads. I really enjoy a darker thriller and this book was just that. It starts with a bang, hooking and pulling me in with the story of Hailey who is trying to disappear and live her life off the grid to get away from an abusive relative. I could definitely relate to some of the story, and the writing was superb. I will admit to finding myself wishing the pace would pick up a bit in the middle, but was not disappointed once I came to the the last few chapters. It definitely had a twist that I never saw coming. Another great read from this author.

"The Dark Roads" opens with a chilling prologue that immediately hooks me in. I really enjoyed part one that illustrates how Hailey escapes her sadistic uncle by living and thriving in the woods.

Unfortunately, the story loses a bit of momentum when Beth's perspective is introduced. There is so much angst on her and Jimmy's end that it reads like juvenile fiction.

The ending is solid. I was totally blown away by the identity of the killer. Everything ties up well in the end.

This is decent suspense but I have read better.

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martins Press for this ARC of Dark Roads.

I’ve been waiting and waiting for something new from Chevy as I’ve read and loved everything she has written. I was so delighted to be offered this ARC before publication this summer.

Disappointed, I was not. The book begins with a teen named Hailey going off the grid with a stray dog she named Wolf to exit out of a bad living situation with her aunt and uncle. I hung on every word about how to survive in the woods in the snow and in the heat. How to have two places to hide, and all the necessary tools to survive.

Then another woman, Beth, comes to town to participate in the memorial that included her sister who had been murdered there in the town of Cold Creek. Other women had been killed there and nobody knew who had been the killer.

Various other characters take on minor rolls until the end – Jonny who helps Hailey out when she needs it, the police, the people who work at the diner, etc.

Stevens is a master at the thriller game. She knows how to plot, how to throw the reader off, and how to make the guilty the least suspected of all. I urge you to read this, pre order so you’ll have it in your hands before anyone else.