I am placing The Lost Village in the category of not worth your time. The plot deteriorates as the story continues and character choices will want to make you scream in frustration.

As ghost-story based thrillers go, I have read better novels like Home Before Dark that contain more intrigue and red herrings than The Lost Village. If you are searching for a novel that is easy to breeze through, then this may be worth your time. The story is well written and the village descriptions are enticing but it lacks the punch I wanted in a suspense novel to make me feel it is worth a read. It is up to you as always to determine if this is worth your time but in my opinion, this is a miss and there are other novels out there with more intriguing thrills.

The plot is over the course of five days where Alice and her crew of four go to Silvertjärn, the "lost village," to shoot a promo for their film. The film is intended to revolve around the mining history of the town and the disappearance of the 900 residents all except two, a baby and a mangled body, that has never been explained.

Alice and crew set out to determine the best spots to film and how they want the film to be shot and things immediately begin to go array. Items disappear, weird sightings occur, and chaos soon emerges. The plot asks the question, will they survive or is the mystery of the town out to get them? The plot of The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is intriguing and will keep your attention.

I have nothing to say. They are well-formed characters but not memorable. In certain moments they were reckless and in others they were timid to push they narrative forward. Normal characters, nothing flash.

I was confused. I am not sure how you will feel reading this novel but you may fall under the emotion of confusion like me. Halfway through the novel I became frustrated with the turn it was taking and the ending finalised that sentiment. If you decide to read this, let me know if you were confused by the ending.

It had me in the first half, not gonna lie. My first suspicions were that the novel was going to be a Blair Witch Project type of story with Alice as the culprit of fictional ghostly actions with her crew creating them to create an authentic ghost promo instead of a mining promo with Alice as the "lead." When Tone disappeared is when I thought some sneaky production stuff was happening or that like a lot of places in Massachusetts during the witch hunts, there was something in the food or water. There was a specific scene where they filled their canteens from the local water source and then weird stuff started happening and is why I thought it was a type of fungi or plant that was causing them to trip and also an explanation of why the townspeople disappeared.

Well, I was completely wrong. It turned out to instead be an insane elderly woman who was apparently well nourished enough to overpower two people? Okay, Emmy was injured but Max was described to be tall and fit, how did an old woman overpower him? That is why I still believe there was something in the water because she must have been tripping on fungi or Priest-like devotion to be able to kill two people.

All of it was too illogical for me to follow and also reconfirmed my stance on never visiting ghost towns. I knew the disappearance if it wasn't hallucinations had to lay with a collapsed mine (yay foresight) but still anticipated some type of supernatural element but there wasn't. It was all a crazy lady who, based on her lifestyle really should have been dead? I do not understand how she survived on canned rations which based on observations, there were none left except for in Alice's grandma's house.

This leads me to ask, and if you've read the novel for me to ask you, who in their right mind eats canned food found in an abandoned town? They weren't starving, they had had food the morning of and suddenly decided to eat the cans? I understand honey, that stuff doesn't expire but the rest... I was so weirded out by that. They had water and were nourished, I personally would have gone hungry for the next two days just in case. I am very concerned about this okay, why did they eat the cans?  You can survive without food for up to two weeks and they had shelter and water? Literally, if they had hunkered down in a safe house near their water supply, they all would have lived as guess what, four people would have been able to overtake an old woman unless again, she was on something.

This is where the novel deteriorated for me with illogical relationships and improbable actions when we all know basic safety in the 21st century. Don't separate. Don't go stomping around in old buildings. Don't eat random food unless the situation is dire. There were a lot of improbable situations that I found hard to look past and is why I feel this novel was a miss. It was enjoyable in the first part and towards the end, I just wanted to be done.