The Waking Dark (Hardcover)

from annhepburn

Not sure what to say about this. I listened to this as an audiobook, and at the end the recording was like, "We hope you enjoyed this audiobook" and I felt more like I survived this book. This is a rough, rough story in a well-written way. I found the violence much more disturbing than in the Hun...

from lilibrarian

One day a quiet Kansas town breaks out in an unprecedented rash of murder/suicides. Some time later, a tornado tears the town to pieces, and destroys a research facility, setting off a new round of violence. The town is isolated, and no help seems to be arriving as people become madder and madder...

from jen.e.moore

A compelling but possibly overly complex horror novel about the kinds of terrible things that small-town religious life does to teenagers. It's got a fairly standard, not very well explored "evil military contractor" horror mechanism, a lot of brutality, and not a single sympathetic character who...

from arielfl

I checked this out of the library three times before I was able to make it past the first one hundred pages. Something compelled me to keep trying but it wasn't until after two hundred pages that I was able to finally dial in and make it to the end. Too many characters, too much going on, and I j...

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

I absolutely adored Robin Wasserman's The Book of Blood and Shadow, which blended horror, paranormal, historical and contemporary fiction into something dark and beautiful. As such, I had very high expectations for The Waking Dark, which were partly met but not wholly. The key thing to know about...