Where Darkness Blooms
A Novel
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.
The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial.
With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it.
Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and now it craves theirs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This seething, surreal horror novel follows four teenage girls—Bo, Delilah, Jude, and Whitney—who struggle to navigate the supernatural events that befall their small Kansas town. Two years after their mothers all disappeared under mysterious circumstances, forcing the four girls to move together into a house at the edge of town, hot-tempered Bo demands that the girls finally host a memorial in their mothers' memories. When a brutal windstorm strikes during the memorial, the resultant disaster uncovers questions regarding their town's long history of missing women, and the circumstances behind their disappearances. Bo's frantic search for answers, Delilah's attempts to hold everything and everyone together, and sisters Whitney and Jude's individual romantic struggles add further complications to their slowly imploding lives. The girls' pursuit of the truth forces them to confront past traumas and reckon with secrets they've been keeping from one another. Occasional dips into stock high school relational angst sometimes slow momentum, but the roiling, ever-present tension underneath it all invests readers in the group's plight. Sharp and rich prose by Hannah (Of Scars and Stardust) blends Faulknerian descriptions with visceral bluntness that artfully marries itself to the story's eerie atmosphere. Ages 12–up.
