The Monsters We Make, Kali White
The Monsters We Make, Kali White
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The Monsters We Make

Author: Kali White

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/23/2020

Synopsis

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, twelve-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's seventeen-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship—and a ticket out of their small Iowa town. Officer Dale Goodkind can't believe his bad luck: another town and another paperboy kidnapping. But this time he vows that it won't go unsolved. As the abductions set in motion an unpredictable chain of violent, devastating events touching each life in unexpected ways, Dale is forced to face his own demons. Told through interwoven perspectives—and based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings in the early 1980s—The Monsters We Make deftly explores the effects of one crime exposing another and the secrets people keep hidden from friends, families, and, sometimes, even themselves.

About Kali White

Kali White is a talented author whose stories and essays have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Nowhere Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Writer, and several anthologies. She received her master's degree in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently a faculty member of the Lindenwood University MFA Creative Writing Program.

About Mia Barron

Mia Barron is an experienced narrator, actress, and writer. Her narration has earned her an Earphones Award, a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and two Audie nominations. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she's appeared on multiple television shows including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Modern Family, and Bones.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on April 02, 2020

3.5 stars This book is based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings which happened in the early 1980s when the author was a young girl. Those kidnappings led her to think "Someone out there is stealing children." Imagine how frightening that thought must have been for her as a chil......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on November 19, 2019

I’m a sucker for a suspense novel crafted around real-life events, and Kali White’s The Monsters We Make had me hooked from page one. This is a story that creeps up the back of your neck, an intense, haunting tale that is as twisty as it is terrifying. A nail-biter with a dark, atmospheric heart.......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on April 27, 2021

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves." Author Kali White's novel, The Monsters We Make, is a fictional dark, crime book based on real life events. The story centers on the disappearance in 1984 of paperboy Christopher Stewart. Set in Des Moines, Iowa, a famil......more

Goodreads review by Chris on September 19, 2020

The Monsters We Make is a fictional mystery based on the true life cases of three paperboys who went missing in the 80s. The book deals with sexual abuse, so if that is triggering for you, please be aware. The book is narrated by three distinct characters. First is Sammy, a paperboy, his sister Cryst......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps on August 13, 2020

2.5 STARS THE MONSTERS WE MAKE is billed as fictionalized story of the abduction of two paperboys from Iowa during the 1980s. The story focuses more on how the abduction affects a police detective Dale, another neighborhood paperboy Sammy, his teenager sister Crystal who wants to write about the kidn......more

Quotes

“Very, very good. An air of menace laced with melancholy hangs over every page, a mourning for a more innocent time that perhaps never was real. The monsters were always there; we just couldn’t see them.” –Booklist

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