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Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

Today's sapphic book of the day is Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah!

Summary: "Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.

The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial.

With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it.

Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and now it craves theirs."

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Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.

The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial.

With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it.

Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and now it craves theirs.

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books i read in 2023: where darkness blooms by andrea hannah

Bo had always known that this town was creepy around the edges. The whispering sunflowers and hellish windstorms. The missing mothers. Eleanor Craft found dead two feet from her front porch. “Natural causes”, they’d said.

How does a teenager die of “natural causes”?

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The boy began the long walk toward the unknown.

Andrea Hannah, from Where Darkness Blooms

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Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books Date of publication: February 21st, 2023 Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, LGBT, Lesbian, Queer, Fiction, Mystery Thriller Trigger Warning: Mention and referral to sexual assault and rape, death, loss of loved ones, child abandonment, mentions of cancer, trauma, mentions of drugging, gun violence, violence Purchase Links:…

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Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

"But she'd forgotten that her pain wasn't a wall--it was a black hole. It sucked people in. She'd let it pull Alma closer, and there was nothing at the core for Whitney to offer her. Just ... emptiness that felt like it would go on forever."

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 3/5

About: The small town of Bishop has a history of disappearing women, so when three more go missing one night, few people raise a fuss. The only ones concerned are their four daughters: Delilah, Bo, Whitney, and Jude. Delilah is trying to hold things together for her family, Bo is battling a dark secret, Jude is secretly in love with Delilah's boyfriend, and Whitney can't get past the unexplained death of her girlfriend. When the secrets buried in Bishop start to surface, they realize something terrible may have happened to their mothers, and they might be its next target. I received an invitation to read a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at St. Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books. Trigger warnings: death (on-page), rape, abduction, captivity, severe injury, blood, stitches, sexism.

Thoughts: This was one of my most anticipated releases this year, but it fell short of expectation. It's possible I was hoping for too much out of it, but the whole thing just left me lukewarm. I think the biggest letdown was the lack of horror, and there's very little development on whatever is cursing the town. That's not to say all books need extensive world-building, or that there's something wrong with leaving the supernatural parts vague--sometimes answers are much less interesting than questions--but it didn't really work for me here. On their own, wind and sunflowers just aren't that frightening.

The real horror of the book, of course, is the rampant sexism and the way the men of the town are completely fine with sacrificing women for personal gain. It's a message I can get behind, and the human villains are definitely worse than the supernatural ones. It handles a number of important issues, including rape, with sensitivity. Unfortunately, a lot of the plot is sidelined in favor of petty high school dramas and uncomfortable romances, which are probably better suited to its target audience than adults venturing into YA. Sometimes it's really clear to me that I've aged out of YA, however much I still enjoy it.

I didn't have a problem with any of the main characters, but they all ended up sounding very similar. It could be hard to distinguish whose chapter we were in, and the differences between the four main girls are already starting to run together on me, with the exception of Bo--love a smol, angry queen. I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading it, but it's probably not something that will stay with me.

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This book gets that my aesthetic is folk horror full of creepy sunflowers

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Review: Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

Author: Andrea HannahPublisher: Wednesday BooksReleased: February 21, 2023 Goodreads | More Horror Reviews Book Summary: We’ve all heard of a strange town. It’s often isolated. More importantly, the rumor mill often has much to say about this town’s strange happenings. One such town is known as Bishop. It’s always been (in)famous for windstorms and sunflowers. And now it is famous for missing…

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Title: Where Darkness Blooms | Author: Andrea Hannah | Publisher: Wednesday Books (2023)

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Top 5 (books with the 5 W’s in the title) Tuesday

Thank goodness Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads added what the W’s were because I had a moment of “what even IS a W” there 😂 So let’s go and see all the W’s I can find! 📚 🚀 📚 What Stays Buried by Suzanne Young (GR/SG) – In her first book for middle grade readers, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young brings together a thrilling ghost story, a heartfelt coming of age journey, and a poignant…

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Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!!

This book is very strange, dark, and mysterious. Luckily, that is my favorite kind of book!

Bishop is a really small town that feels even smaller and narrow minded the more I learned about it. The prologue begins with a short preview of what is behind the darkness of this town. Specifically it needs blood, and as it so happens, the sacrifices are always women.

There are four main characters and four pov which is a bit daunting for a standalone. They live together, two twin sisters and two other girls, in the house they lived in with their mothers before their mysterious disappearance. This story is about fighting for the truth, their rights, particularly as women in a town ruled by men who seem to take as much as the blood hungry soil.

I thought this was an interesting read and I really enjoyed it. However, I have a few thoughts about the ending but I don't want to include spoilers.

Content warning for sexual assault and violence.

Out February 21, 2023!

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2/8

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Bookish Travels---February 2023 Desinations

I saw this meme on It’s All About Books and thought, I like this!! So, I decided to do it once a month also. Many thanks to Yvonne for initially posting this!! This post is what it says: Places I travel to in books each month. Books are lovely and take you to places you would never get to. That includes places of fantasy too!! Bon Voyage!! Please let me know if you have read these books or…