Time for another ARC Review!
This time I’m talking about upcoming supernatural thriller WHERE DARKNESS BLOOMS, about four girls with missing mothers and their search for the answers of their town’s dark mysteries. It has blood, it has whispering wind, it has sunflowers with secrets.
WHERE DARKNESS BLOOMS is the kind of book that starts slow, but creeps up on you faster and faster like a strangling vine you cannot escape. It is dark and feminist and ominous in all the best ways.
One highlight of the book for me is how distinct and separate each of the four narrating girls is. They each have their own journey going on, but it all ties together with each other. And most of them not being related (two of the girls are twins, but the girls are otherwise unrelated) they really come across a family (even if a bit dysfunctional at times).
Another part of the book the author absolutely nails is the atmospheric tone. Once you pick up this book, you feel the doom of being trapped in the windy sunflower filled tone of Bishop just as much as the characters are, and become just as desperate for them to escape as they are.
I highly recommend it for anyone in the mood for something spooky and eerie, and for anyone who wants to see a feminist take on horror.
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