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Into The Forest And All The Way Through <\/em>by Cynthia Pelayo (\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a> |\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n Burial Day Books, 2020<\/p>\n ISBN: 9781735693613<\/p>\n Available:\u00a0 Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Through a collection of terrifying portraits, Cynthia Pelayo creates a true crime portfolio in her provocative book of poems Into the Forest and All the Way Through<\/em>. Each poem memorializes a particular child or woman who was murdered or simply vanished never to be seen again. Some of the poems describe the victim and some the scene of the murder. Others give us a snapshot of tragic moments in time or suggest the final minutes of agony and fear that these people suffered.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pelayo\u2019s choice of genre lends itself well to revealing the random clues left behind pointing to abduction, the details of clothing collected from people trying hard to remember something that might prove useful to an investigation, and the cataloguing of the victim\u2019s habits, interests, and favorite places. All of these fragments paint a picture in the reader\u2019s mind of the terror of those whose lives have been taken and of those left behind to deal with either the finality of death or the suffering of never knowing what really happened or why. There are also some poems in the collection that depict the murderers: their brutality, lack of human emotion, and even glee in frustrating the efforts of loved ones wanting to find a body to bury.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The most bone-chilling poems are those that describe the things that scare us the most – what we can\u2019t see and what we can\u2019t stop. There is the woman \u201cfound stuffed in a chimney\u201d where different people had lived for years without knowing she was there or the man who worked at a home for the disabled and took the life of \u201ca sweet young woman\u201d \u201clike a child, innocent.\u201d The abducted \u201cisland girls\u201d whose pictures have been discovered in the ground are \u201csinging their mourning songs\u201d \u201cpleading come find \/ Me.\u201d The poems in this book forcibly call us to be aware of the thousands of \u201cforgotten and ignored women,\u201d the dangers that still exist, and the problems that have gone unsolved, just as their murders and disappearances have to this day. Recommended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviewed by Nova Hadley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A note from the editor: It is the end of November and Monster Librarian still needs to raise the funds to pay for our hosting fees and postage in 2021. If you like what we\u2019re doing, please take a moment to click on that red \u201cContribute\u201d button in the sidebar to the right, to help<\/p>\n![\"cover](\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/into_the_forest_Pelayo.gif\")
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