Bent Heavens, Daniel Kraus
Bent Heavens, Daniel Kraus
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Bent Heavens

Author: Daniel Kraus

Narrator: Amara Jasper

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

“Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely.”—Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer

From New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck, genre-defying YA thriller perfect for fans of Kiersten White, Neal Shusterman, and M. T. Anderson.

Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Liv has long accepted that he’s dead, though that doesn’t mean she has given up their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him.

But Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her father’s absurd theories. Done going through the motions for Doug’s sake. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. In that moment, she’s faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. And no one believed him.

Now, she and Doug have a choice to make. They can turn the alien over to the authorities…or they can take matters into their own hands.

On the heels of the worldwide success of The Shape of Water, Daniel Kraus returns with a horrifying and heartbreaking thriller about the lengths people go to find justice and the painful reality of grief.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

“Bent Heavens is the darkest, angriest alien horror story that I've ever encountered. Hell. Yes.”—Stephanie Perkins, New York Times-bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House

About Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Angel Down won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He coauthored The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar–winning film. Their earlier collaboration, Trollhunters, was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He also cowrote Pay the Piper with George A. Romero. Kraus is a Bram Stoker Award winner. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com.


Reviews

Be the tallest you can Wow! This book is CRAZY! I went in blind with a vague idea that it had to do with aliens but got a lot more than I expected. It was so dark... uncomfortable so at some points. But it's also YA. So random antidotes of mean girls and school sports and 'meeting the new boy' was pe......more

Goodreads review by Tracy

YES!!! What a great read. Family. Sacrifice. Suffering. Conspiracy. All of these things craft the main threads throughout Bent Heavens. This book was my first experience reading Kraus’ work. Prior to this I had only watched The Shape of Water, a collaboration with Guillermo del Toro that was also re......more

I don't know how much I can emphasize that, despite the ages of the characters, despite the parent trouble and the bully trouble and the general teen angst, this book is not YA. It's brutal, dark, and depressing. I also need to tell you that it's not E.T. Remember E.T.? Find the ugly/cute big-eyed ali......more


Awards

  • Bram Stoker Awards - Nominee