This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!
If you knew the world was ending, who would you save? And would they let you?
Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all.
But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and…whispering. At the touch of her finger, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her and rich kids Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun at the center.
Apollo knows their cousin is up to no good, and with the Rathbun family scattered to the wind, they know Cyrus is aiming to present himself as the new patriarch. Despite an initial attraction, Apollo is reluctant to believe Winnie. But soon it becomes clear that their family histories are intertwined, with the whispering, hungry box at the very center, and more than their lives are on the line. Together, they must discover the origins of the box and stop unforeseen forces from fulfilling the apocalyptic prophecy, or die trying.
From the author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me comes a speculative thriller about the ties that bind us to places and people, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and Tochi Onyebuchi.
Published by: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Expected Publication: August 26, 2025
Why I’m Waiting: I fell for Jamison Shea’s debut and then I heard about this one. It sounds as outrageous as the first one and I can’t wait to see if that’s true! This sounds like it’s gearing up to be a really weird book lol And someone said it starts in the past? Yeah this is all kinds of weird and I need it like yesterday. JUST HAND IT HERE HENRY HOLT lol
What about you? Do you read horror? What about just YA horror? Let me know in the comments!
Ooh nice pick! I still need to read Shea’s first book…duology! It’s on my TBR pile at least! Lol. This one sounds intriguing as well! I told myself I need to stop adding books to my TBR from new to me authors until I’ve read what I had from them, but who knows what might happen with this one! Lol.
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