What Stalks Among Us, Sarah Hollowell
What Stalks Among Us, Sarah Hollowell
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What Stalks Among Us

Author: Sarah Hollowell

Narrator: Amielynn Abellera

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 09/12/2023


Synopsis

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously creepy YA speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them.Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch their end-of-year field trip to the amusement park in favor of exploring some old, forgotten backroads. The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze.But with a whole day of playing hooking unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that.When they stumble on the corpses in the maze, identical to them in every way (if you can ignore the stab and gunshot wounds)--from their clothes to their hidden scars to their dyed hair, to that one missing tooth--they quickly realize they’ve not only entered this maze before, they’ve died in it too. A lot. And no matter what they try, they can’t figure out what—or who—is hunting them.Deeply unnerving, clever, and atmospheric, this time-bending, mind-bending speculative horror is a poignant meditation on the lasting effects of trauma and the healing powers of connection and forgiveness—all while delivering more surprise twists and turns than a haunted corn maze. 

About Sarah Hollowell

Sarah Hollowell is a queer, fat Hoosier writer aiming to up the magic quotient of Indiana. She spends an awful lot of her nonwriting time listening to podcasts, needle felting cryptids, and replaying the same five video games.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Quill&Queer on September 28, 2023

Truly a book you have to trust and go along with, I did find myself re-reading the first couple of pages before I got it and got into it, and this weird little story of two teens who find themselves trapped in a corn maze where they keep finding their own dead bodies was just as complex and satisfyi......more

Goodreads review by Danika at The Lesbrary on October 25, 2023

The premise of this YA horror novel is that two friends get lost in an ever-shifting corn maze, and then they find their own dead bodies in the maze and have to figure out how to avoid the same fate. I love a horror premise like this: we’re thrown into a messed up supernatural situation and have to......more

Goodreads review by Sam on March 05, 2024

this took me way longer to finish then it should have due to the repetition of the story and memory loss. though, if you're a younger reader i can see a lot of importance for this story being read and out there as it touches on a lot of topics high schoolers should really be aware of and have conver......more

Goodreads review by Anna on November 27, 2023

This was so so good. I cannot express to you how difficult it is to find books with fat queer neurodivergent main characters that are done well and I am thrilled to be able to add this to those that are well done. The story follows these two best friends who skip a field trip and end up in the shift......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on December 17, 2023

3.5, which way to round..... The good here - I very much related to Sadie's ADHD brain, anxiety, etc. I appreciate that Sadie's past abusive relationship was online and emotional abuse. This alone is worth putting this into the hands of so many middle and high schoolers. Like Sadie, they need to hear......more