It Will Just Be Us, Jo Kaplan
It Will Just Be Us, Jo Kaplan
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It Will Just Be Us

Author: Jo Kaplan

Narrator: Amanda Dolan

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2020


Synopsis

Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts. Already navigating her tumultuous relationship with Elizabeth, Sam is even more unsettled by the appearance of a new ghost: a faceless boy who commits disturbing acts—threatening animals, terrorizing other children, and following Sam into the depths of the house wielding a knife. When it becomes clear the boy is connected to a locked, forgotten room, one that is never entered, Sam realizes this ghost is not like the others. This boy brings doom... As Elizabeth's due date approaches, Sam must unravel the mysteries of Wakefield before her sister brings new life into a house marked by death. But as the faceless boy grows stronger, Sam will learn that some doors should stay closed—and some secrets are safer locked away forever.

About Amanda Dolan

Amanda Dolan is an experienced narrator and actor who received her master's degree from Brown University. In addition to narrating and acting, she works as a theater educator and musician. She is currently based in New York City.

About Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan is an author based in the Los Angeles area who writes with much encouragement from her husband and two cats. Her fiction (as Joanna Parypinski) has appeared in publications such as Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Haunted Nights (edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton), and New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (edited by Jonathan Maberry). She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College, where she also plays cello in the GCC orchestra.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

I read dead people and they are in everywhere… That son of… faceless kid scared the living daylights out of me!!! Another batshit crazy roller coaster ride I have, are you also in? Let’s dive into blurb: Two daughters live with their mother at the haunted mansion built at the edge of the swamp. (Yeap,......more

My thanks to Crooked books, Jo Kaplan and Netgalley. I've been thinking about this story all day. I still don't know what to say. I didn't like this book at the beginning. It was a bit like being back in Elementary school, on Monday. For show and tell! I actually loved show and tell, but not so much......more


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A rich, dense supernatural thriller...Horror fiction fans will also want to check this out.