There are two bands on their way to a music festival on their way. The car with one band breaks down, but ran into another band on their way to the same festival that was in a tour bus. It is clear that there are a couple members from each band that have a history that is challenging, but they did decide to all go in the tour bus together to get to the festival. Soon after though the tour bus also breaks down on the road.
After the bus crash, most of the people can’t be found right away. There was a dead girl found in one of the suit cases though but no one seems upset by it.
Deacon and Haden leave the bus explore the swamp and find a creepy house in the swamp but also in the swamp is fog and whispers.
Turns out a couple years ago, the owner of this house that the group finds through a party, but none of the guests were seen again they find a videotape and some Polaroids of the guests who are at the party there was a question of this house ever existed or if it was just a ghost story. It’s not just a ghost story and weird things happen!
If you like mystery, a little paranormal, and creepy this book is for you!
The characters are hard to connect with, but the storyline is really good and unique.

It took me a while to get into this, but once I did, I enjoyed it! I would recommend this as a "horror beach read" type book. I wasn't super drawn into the characters but I loved the house and the atmosphere. This is my second Kat Ellis book and I felt the same way about her first, so perhaps she just isn't for me. If the pitch and concept appeal to you, I would still recommend this though!

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy.
I enjoyed this book. It had a good storyline, characters and just enough horror and spookiness to keep me wanting to keep reading. I didn't expect the story to end like it did but it was a good surprise. Will read more from this author!!!

The Devouring Light was a spooky swampy read surrounding Haden and a crew of musicians as they survive a bus crash and find themselves stranded in a creepy house in the swamp called The Light. It goes back and forth between mixed media and I think this really adds to the story and the history surrounding The Light and its weirdness. There was definitely a lot of weird happenings and creepy moments and as much as the swamp was a perfect gloomy and foreboding setting for the story I would have loved more spooky swamp details to add to the vibes. There wasn't a single alligator, sad me! There was however great detail about the house and I loved that. This one definitely had a lot of weird things going on but I enjoyed that it had a strange twist!

The Devouring Light was absolutely fantastic! The author wrote a story that was so well written I found myself flying through the pages, unable to put the book down, pondering what would happen next. My favorite piece of this entire story was how believable the characters were.

The writing is clear and clean, and very immersive. The book hums along at a good clip, but the pacing makes sure we're given time to breathe between plot-intensifying moments. The story was absolutely engaging and the work that went into the settings was noticeable and superb. I felt absolutely transported and I'm so incredibly glad I was able to read an arc of this story.