Saint Junipers Folly, Alex Crespo
Saint Junipers Folly, Alex Crespo
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Saint Juniper's Folly

Author: Alex Crespo

Narrator: Giordan Diaz, Mark Sanderlin, Victoria Villarreal

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023


Synopsis

Cemetery Boys meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in this spellbinding debut! Alex Crespo’s queer haunted house mystery is equal parts spine-tingling thrills, a celebration of found family, and must-read for paranormal romance fans.

For Jaime, returning to the tiny Vermont town of Saint Juniper means returning to a past he’s spent eight years trying to forget. After shuttling between foster homes, he hopes he can make something out of this fresh start. But every gossip in town already knows his business, and with reminders of his past everywhere, he seeks out solitude into the nearby woods, called Saint Juniper’s Folly, and does not return.

For Theo, Saint Juniper means being stuck. He knows there’s more out there, but he’s scared to go find it. His senior year is going to be like all the rest, dull and claustrophobic. That is until he wanders into the Folly and stumbles on a haunted house with an acerbic yet handsome boy stuck—as in physically stuck—inside. 

For Taylor, Saint Juniper is a mystery. The surrounding woods speak to her, while she tries—and fails—to practice the magic her dad banned from the house after her mother died. Taylor can't seem break out of her spiral of grief, until a wide-eyed teenager barges into her life, rambling on about a haunted house, a trapped boy, and ghosts. He needs a witch.

The Folly and its ghosts will bring these three teenagers together. But they will each have to face their own internal struggles in order to forge a bond strong enough to escape the Folly's shadows.

About The Author

Alex Crespo is a queer, trans, Mexican-American writer who loves writing queer spooky love stories.


Reviews

Perfect for people who are too scared to read most horror or young teens wanting to dip their toes into the genre. If you are looking for horror-lite where there's a spooky setting but a bigger focus on relationships and personal growth than being particularly scary, Saint Juniper's Folly is a great......more

cute. 3.5 stars read as part of 202-Queer 🌈✨......more

*I received an ecopy of this book via NetGalley. This has not influenced my review.* This was very sweet! I felt for these teens and their struggles with parents and self-worth and their pasts and their worries about the future. The romance was cute. The way Jaime and Theo spent time together, got to......more

This was a really cute queer romance set in a small mysterious town, with an interesting mystery to solve as well. Told in three POVs, we meet Theo and Taylor as they race against time to discover why new to town Jaime is trapped inside the strange house in Saint Juniper. I loved that a lot of the ma......more