The Harrowing, Alexandra Sokoloff
The Harrowing, Alexandra Sokoloff
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The Harrowing

Author: Alexandra Sokoloff

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/29/2019

Categories: Fiction, Ghost


Synopsis

Baird College's Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. Or perhaps it's only gathering itself for the coming weekend.

As a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative tease; Cain, a brooding musician; and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons.

The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Are they the victims of a simple college prank taken way too far, or is the unusual energy evidence of something genuine—and intent on using the five students for its own terrifying ends? It's only Thursday afternoon, and they have three long days and dark nights before the rest of the world returns to find out what's become of them. But for now it's just the darkness keeping company with five students nobody wants and no one will miss.

About Alexandra Sokoloff

Thriller Award winner Alexandra Sokoloff has been called a "daughter of Mary Shelley" by the New York Times Book Review, and her books are "some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre." She was nominated for the Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Black Quill Awards for her supernatural thrillers The Harrowing, The Price, The Unseen, and Book of Shadows. Her huntress/FBI thrillers series (Huntress Moon, Blood Moon, Cold Moon, Bitter Moon, and Hunger Moon) earned a second Thriller Award nomination.

Alex writes original screenplays and novel adaptations for numerous Hollywood studios, and she is the author of three writing workbooks: Stealing Hollywood, Screenwriting Tricks for Authors, and Writing Love, and the acclaimed blog ScreenwritingTricks.com. She has also penned erotic paranormal fiction for the Keepers trilogy and the Keepers L.A. quartet. She lives in Los Angeles and Scotland with crime author Craig Robertson.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Trin

A simple ghost story stretched rather too long and with a bit too much emo for my tastes. Robin is a college student with angst—do you hear me? ANGST—who stays in her dorm over Thanksgiving instead of going home to her crazy (and ANGST-causing!) mom. She meets four other outcast-types, and then they......more

"It was all some dark, unfathomable mass, a vortex of chaos and confusion." The Harrowing didn't really work for me. First, the synopsis makes it sound like the book is about the horrors that occur while students are stuck at school for Thanksgiving break. I was expecting something ominous and atmosp......more

Goodreads review by Dannii

I picked this book up on a whim, and for very cheaply, whilst second-hand book browsing. I did not read the synopsis but was drawn in by the creepy cover and the sinister title font. I decided to forego an investigation of what to expect from reading this and go into it blindly once I had taken the......more

The quote on the front of my copy described this perfectly " the exorcist meets scream". The book handles that concept well, but the actual content is a little on the tame side. I was most hooked when the teens were arguing with each other which made some great conflict. But the haunting scenes were......more