Sundial
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3.9 • 17 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King
A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
STARRED review from Publishers Weekly!
Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!
Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street.
You can't escape what's in your blood...
All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind.
She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.
Callie is worried about her mother. Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive…
The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future.
"A story where nothing is what it seems—a thrilling hall of mirrors full of deeply disturbing twists. This book will haunt you." —Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this disturbing psychological-horror novel, long-buried secrets claw their way to the surface at a secluded family home deep in the Mojave desert. Rob’s life as a suburban mother of two young girls seems light-years away from her surreal upbringing on a compound affectionately nicknamed Sundial. But between her abusive, unfaithful husband and her 12-year-old daughter Callie’s alarming behavior—she collects the bones of dead animals and torments her younger sister—things are far from perfect. When Rob decides to take Callie away to the now-empty Sundial, we embark on a terrifying, slow-burn journey into the depths of hereditary trauma. Narrator Katherine Fenton’s somber voice adds another level of tension to Catriona Ward’s unsettling novel. Sundial will keep you guessing until the bitter (and bloody) end.
Customer Reviews
Good book, bad narrator
I gave up on this book about halfway through because I couldn’t stand the narrator anymore. She reads every line of dialogue in a whiny child’s voice. My kids whine enough, I don’t need to listen to it in an audiobook, too.
The story was interesting and I would like to know how it finishes, but I just can’t with the narrator.
I Enjoyed It
It’s full of odd people, but I was so into it I finished in one night. Plus the lady saying Jacaranda gave me a good laugh.
Yep
I can be picky and impatient but this was a great balance between being exciting without being corny. One of my favorites so far this year.