Hawk Mountain, Conner Habib
Hawk Mountain, Conner Habib
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Hawk Mountain
A Novel

Author: Conner Habib

Narrator: Conner Habib

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2022

Synopsis

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water’s edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years but now seems overjoyed to have “run into” his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night?What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and cunning. As Jack invades Todd’s life, pain and intimidation from the past unearth knife-edge suspense in the present.Set in a small town on the New England coast, Conner Habib’s debut introduces characters trapped in isolation by the expansive woods and the encroaching ocean, their violence an expression of repressed desire and the damage it can inflict.Both gruesome and tender, Hawk Mountain offers a compelling look at how love and hate are indissoluble, intertwined until the last breath.

About Conner Habib

Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, which features conversations with artists, intellectuals, and countercultural figures, and covers topics as wide-ranging as punk rock, philosophy, pornography, and occultism. His nonfiction writing has appeared in multiple online and print magazines. He lives in Ireland. Hawk Mountain is his first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie on February 19, 2023

HAWK MOUNTAIN by Conner Habib (this is a DEBUT) << mind blown. Release Date: July 2022 General Genre: Psychological, Adult Horror/Suspense Subgenre/Themes: some Coming-of-Age (high school), Gothic, Human Monsters, Mind-Bender, Mystery, Psychological, Reads Like a Thriller Writing Style: brisk pacing, sh......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on December 26, 2022

Some men would rather (view spoiler)[beat a childhood bully to death, slowly chop his decomposing body into pieces, and traumatize and alienate their child while spiraling into insanity than admit that they are gay. (hide spoiler)] This begins as a frog-in-boiling water book, as Todd’s high school bully Jack shows up unexpectedly......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on July 05, 2022

Gory? Yes. But so, so good.......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on April 17, 2023

I almost DNF’d this at the beginning of part 2, but I’m happy I didn’t!! Just know if you pick this up, the first half is SLOW. Like, so damn incredibly slow 😂 it’s supposed to be a slow burn with mounting tension, but I felt nothing for the characters and honestly had a hard time keeping them toget......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 21, 2022

I vacillated a bit on whether or not this was a 3 or 4 star read for me. On the positive side, the author Conner Habib writes in a very lyrical style with passion and intelligence. Negatively, even with all the purple prose it became a slog to get through. Vivid descriptions and infinitesimal narra......more

Quotes

“Habib ramps up the paranoia to Highsmithian levels." The Guardian (London)

“Supremely tense…Hawk Mountain channels Patricia Highsmith by way of Hitchcock...Habib builds the sense of dread with slow, carefully meted out notes of obsession and intuition.” CrimeReads

“Gaslighting, masculinity, and cycles of abuse are all skillfully handled in a story that is, to put it lightly, not for the faint of heart.” Business Post Ireland

“This heart-pounding thriller will have readers furiously turning pages.” Booklist (starred review)

“The tension is palpable on every page, and Habib skillfully illustrates the complexity of relationships and the pain of unmet desires." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A page-turner in the most classic sense.” Gay Community News

“Conner Habib’s debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush.” Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author

“Dripping with menace from the first page, this story of childhood enemies meeting up fifteen years later is utterly enthralling.” Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait

“The opening lines of Hawk Mountain plummet you into an atmosphere of creeping dread and precarious restraint that won’t let up until the final, shocking moments.” Caitlin Doughty, New York Times bestselling author

“A deeply disturbing yet, somehow, soaring novel I won’t soon forget. It plumbs the depths of traumatized characters trapped within our damaging culture. I couldn’t look away, even when I was looking from between my fingers.” Paul Tremblay, nationally bestselling author

Awards

  • Audible Best Audiobook
  • Amazon Editors' Pick
  • The Guardian (London) Best Book of the Year
  • Irish Times
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