The Game: The Valley (Krystyna Kuhn) | Book Review

Author: Krystyna Kuhn
Title: The Game: The Valley
Original title: Das Spiel
Series: Das Tal, Season 1
- first book in a series
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2012
Pages: 316



Synopsis

The famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for highly gifted. But to Julia and her brother, it´s a much needed escape. But when they stumble upon a dead body their first week they´ll learn they can only run so far from their past. And that the valley has secrets of its own.......

My thoughts

Well, I want to start with the cover. I love this one, but nothing can beat the original covers. They are beautiful. I don´t speak very good German, but I want to have them!

As you know, this is the first book in the series. I loved it. The beginning was a little bit slow, but when all the things started happening.... wow. I loved this book. It´s not exactly creepy, but there is a lot of mistery. 

The story follows two siblings, Julia and Robert Frost. They have to escape from their past, so they chose this school. 

What I especially adored about this book, that not everything was revealed. A lot of books like this, start very misterious, but on the 10th page, you know everything about the characters. The secrets and their very very dark past. But it wasn´t like this in The Game. As you read the book, there are a few scenes that reveal
something, but not everyting. I am thinking about the kids. The only thing you know, that something really bad happened, and they cannot tell anybody.
And the valley. Omg. A creepy place like this! Everybody in Grace College knows, that this is a very bad place, but they have to stay there. One of the characters, I think Alex or Chris, said, that the valley changes everybody and everything. And that was true. When Julia first came, she was the shy one, but she was always smiling. But as she stayed in the school, she started changing. She made friends and became very very brave.
And then here´s Robert. He has these visions, or anything you call it. He know from the first moment, that
Grace College is not a good place.
Of course, there are other characters in the book. Like Debbie, Rose, Alex, Chris, Ben, Angela, Isabel and Katie. All of them are weird. For example: Rose is bald, Debbie is chubby, but she has a very dark secret. Ben has a camera, that he never puts down. Angela is in a wheelchair, she seems innocent, but as you know, everybody changes in the valley.
If you are looking for a very easy but good and misterious read, The Game is for you :) Oh, and I gave this book 4.5 out of 5 stars, because of the beginning, which was very slow and kind of boring.