Dark Room Etiquette

Name: Dark Room Etiquette
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Robin Roe
ISBN: 9780063051768

Author: Robin Roe

Narrator: Andrew J. Andersen

Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/11/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Social Themes

Synopsis

We Were Liars meets Room in this masterfully plotted psychological thriller from the critically acclaimed author of A List of Cages, Robin Roe.SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAYERS WAYTE HAS EVERYTHING.Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy.Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality. To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the part his abductor has created for him. But as time passes, the line between fact and fiction starts to blur, and Sayers begins to wonder if he can escape . . . before he loses himself.

About Robin Roe

Robin Roe has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s from Harvard. She counseled adolescents in Boston before she moved to Dallas to run a mentoring program for at-risk teens. Her debut novel A List of Cages was named one of the Best Young Adult Books of the Year by Goodreads, Chapters Indigo, EpicReads, BookPage, Powell’s Books, The Texas Library Association, and Buzzfeed. You can read more about Robin at www.robinroewriter.com and follow her on Instagram @robinroewriter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on March 01, 2023

I can honestly say Dark Room Etiquette is captivating, compelling, extremely intense and dark survival and healing story of Sayers Wayte! It’s not for everyone to read! Some chapters were hard to absorb! I honestly got a few breaks to control my breathing! It made me cry. It made me deeply hurt. It......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on May 22, 2024

Trauma. How do you deal with it? What does it do to you? Dark Room Etiquette is the intense and discomforting story of Sayers (Saye), a sixteen-year-old privileged boy who gets kidnapped and is trapped in a windowless room. This book was one of my most anticipated 2022 reads, and I was a little anxi......more

Goodreads review by Maisha on April 13, 2023

You should've just shot me. Why torture my poor heart like that? “The bad things are going to change you no matter what, and they can make you angry and bitter—or they can make you better.” "We come into the world ready to love whoever shows up, good or bad—that’s what we do.” Intense, harrowing and fr......more

Goodreads review by Helen on October 15, 2022

Sayers Wayte is an entitled rich boy. He’s the definition of ennui. He’s bored with life, and he never laughs anymore, at least, according to his best friend he doesn’t. He’s charming, popular, and he’s friends with bullies. But he doesn’t care when the bullies take things too far. He doesn’t care a......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on February 10, 2022

My blurb for this book: DARK ROOM ETIQUETTE is an utterly harrowing, enthralling, and ultimately hopeful exploration of survival and the journey of recovery from trauma. This book will make you think, but more importantly, it will make you feel.......more