Whilst her novels have always focused on the darker side of the traditional fairy tales that we all know (eg. Somehow, each time I read one of Henry’s books they just get better and better which I didn’t know was even still possible. Could the Horseman be real after all? Or does something even more sinister stalk the woods? GoodReads ReviewĪfter yesterday’s review (as well as other Henry reviews of mine…) it will not be a surprise at all that I absolutely loved this novel and devoured it in one sitting. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in Sleepy Hollow have ever said. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play “Sleepy Hollow boys,” reenacting the events Brom once lived through.
Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Brom says that’s just legend, the village gossips talking. Not even Ben Van Brunt’s grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him.
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