Where Darkness Blooms, Andrea Hannah
Where Darkness Blooms, Andrea Hannah
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Where Darkness Blooms

Author: Andrea Hannah

Narrator: Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Emily Ellet, Lindsey Dorcus, Rachanee Lumayno

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2023


Synopsis

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial.
With secrets come lies, and each of the girls is forced to confront them. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but every time he touches her she feels unbearable pain. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it.
Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and when it’s through with them, no one might survive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mai on October 24, 2024

As I was reading this, I felt like I had read it before. I had. Only THE DEAD AND THE DARK was much better. We've got small town "horror" with the tiniest sprinkling of LGBTQ+. And I mean the tiniest. The cover is gorgeous, which is the first sign I should've not requested this. 📱 Thank you to NetGal......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on January 10, 2023

I get what this book was trying to do, but I don't know how successful the execution was. It is riddled with plot holes and motivations that don't make sense. It is clearly trying to evoke similar themes to The Handmaids Tale (the book is explicitly referenced in the text if it wasn't obvious) but I......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on June 19, 2024

Well, that certainly was a series of words on a series of pages. I was excited about a YA story about a blood-thirsty town separated from the rest of the world with lesbian representation and feminist themes, but what I got was a jumble of plot holes, mediocre prose, underdeveloped and irritating cha......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on March 06, 2023

Star Rating: —> 4.5 Stars BR with the lovely Malli! Thank you to netgalley & the publisher for the ARC! All opinions are my own. KEEP ME. How? The traveler wondered. The wind shuddered through the field where the sunflowers swayed, where the stolen lives of the dead lay. Blood. Blood. Blood. The to......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on February 21, 2023

This YA book was just ok for me. There are multiple POV’s so you get to know each of the four girls. Although it was creepy at times I found myself bored most of the time. Three women go missing in the town of Bishop. Their daughters come together to figure out what to do. They eventually discover th......more