Extasia, Claire Legrand
Extasia, Claire Legrand
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Extasia

Author: Claire Legrand

Narrator: Emily Lawrence

Unabridged: 12 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/22/2022


Synopsis

**One of BuzzFeed's Great LGBTQ+ YA novels to Warm up Your Winter * A Kid's Feb/March IndieNext pick**From New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil that’s stalking her village. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Grace Year.Her name is unimportant.All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain—an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men.She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother’s shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?This searing and lyrically written novel by the critically acclaimed author of Sawkill Girls beckons readers to follow its fierce heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood—where the truth is buried in lies and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it.

About Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand is the author of Foxheart, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, The Year of Shadows, and Some Kind of Happiness, as well as the New York Times-bestselling young adult fantasy Furyborn and its sequels. She is one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities. Claire Legrand lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on February 23, 2022

claire legrand really said: you can have some witches and lesbians…. as a treat.......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on November 10, 2021

It PAINS me to say I didn't really like this book! Sawkill Girls is one of my favorite books and on paper this book had everything going for it: by an author I love, has culty/witchy stuff, deals with misogyny and religious trauma, has speculative elements....all things I'm generally a fan of. Unfor......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on September 21, 2024

An ethereal, haunting and sublime kind of supernatural horror that doesn't scare as much as shock one to the marrow with bone chilling ferocity about mankind's propensity to be enslaved by our own false beliefs and truths. And ultimately, I read somewhere that: "we're all born free but spend our......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on November 10, 2024

god, what a book to be reading during the 2024 election. i couldn't have asked for a more man hating, sisterhood-promoting, who's-afraid-of-little-old-me feminist rage anthem to read around a time like this. framed in a world that hates women and uses religion to shame and abuse them, this really hi......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on August 25, 2021

Thank you to Edeleiss, Netgalley (for approving me 30 minutes after I downloaded it from Edelweiss), and, of course, the publishers for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. I’m not usually a horror reader but it has been appealing to me lately with several upcoming releases, and since I read Cla......more