House of Ash and Bone, Joel A. Sutherland
House of Ash and Bone, Joel A. Sutherland
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House of Ash and Bone

Author: Joel A. Sutherland

Narrator: Veronica Hortiguela

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tundra Books

Published: 09/05/2023

Synopsis

The Haunted meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this young adult debut horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland.

Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched. Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes. Her name is Dorcas, the ghost of a witch who died three hundred years ago. She has summoned the family to Vermont to ensnare them — then consume them — in order to rise from the grave and live again . . .

About The Author

JOEL A. SUTHERLAND is the Silver Birch, Diamond Willow and Hackmatack Award-winning author of Be a Writing Superstar, numerous volumes of Haunted Canada (a series that now has more than 500,000 copies in print) and Summer's End (a Red Maple Award Honour Book currently in development for television by Scholastic Entertainment, Mainframe Studios and Man of Action Entertainment). His new series, Haunted, has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales and lives in southeastern Ontario with his family, where he is always on the lookout for ghosts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mallory on September 10, 2023

This was a really well done young adult horror. I sometimes find young adult horror to be too cheesy, but I felt like this one did a good balance. I did think it was a little more of a slow burn than I would have liked. The big twists at the end were pretty predictable but I still found it to be a c......more

Goodreads review by Fizah(Books tales by me) on May 01, 2023

THANKS TO NETGALLEY FOR THIS REVIEW COPY IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW. Josephine's family has unexpectedly inherited a home in Vermont from their great-grandaunt. The Family has decided to celebrate Christmas there to check the lifestyle of that particular small town, moving there permanently is......more

Goodreads review by Roanna25 on September 09, 2023

Was it intentional that all the daughters had names very similar to Little Women (including Louisa!) The biggest struggle was the age...Josephine was supposed to be 16. She read a lot younger and behaved a lot younger. Had she been 13 it would have made more sense. Also more swearing in this book tha......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on October 14, 2023

This was CREEPY AF and if you only read one book this #SpookySeason I highly recommend it be this one!! A twisty YA horror story that sees a young girl travelling to a haunted house with her family only to find its possessed by an evil witch. There are a few gruesome scenes involving eyeballs and di......more

Goodreads review by Kiera ☠ on October 12, 2023

When I purchased this book, I was captured by the cover art. I didn’t realize that this was YA, which is completely my fault for not researching more because I don’t tend to enjoy YA by default. I actually started off really enjoying this book, the atmosphere was incredibly creepy and trippy. Howeve......more

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One of Kids Committee List's Red Maple Fiction Readers Books for 2024

"Engaging characters kept me turning the pages even when spine-chilling scenes made me wish I hadn’t decided to read this after dark." —Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Someone Is Always Watching
 
“A chilling story of shadows and of witches who want more than just your soul to keep. Joel is a master in the art of suspense, and you'll root for Josephine too while she slowly uncovers the terrifying secrets of her new home all the way to its horrific, heart-pounding conclusion.” —Rin Chupeco, author of The Bone Witch
 
“House of Ash and Bone breathes new life into YA horror and also announces the arrival of a powerful new voice! Highly recommended!” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and editor of Weird Tales Magazine
 
"Crammed with jump scares and terrifying twists, House of Ash and Bone is a chilling, spine-tingling thriller with atmosphere to spare. Joel A. Sutherland’s debut young adult novel is a winner from creepy start to terrifying finish, a classic horror tale with a contemporary vibe that’s sure to have readers of all ages flipping pages until late into the night. I loved it!" —Tom Ryan, award-winning author of Keep This to Yourself

"A thoroughly enjoyable, suspenseful supernatural tale." —Kirkus Reviews

"Sutherland lets readers know from the start that something is wrong with the house and its inhabitants. A feeling of being unmoored permeates the book as Josephine tries to understand what is real and what is delusion. . . . A creepy and unsettling ghost story." —School Library Journal

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