Roar of the Lambs

By Jamison Shea

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 of 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.

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Published Aug 26, 2025

416 pages

Average rating: 6

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thesmokymountainsreader
Jul 06, 2026
6/10 stars
I honestly don't know where to start with this book. I will say that I loved the first twenty percent or so. I listened to the audio version. I enjoyed the narrator's voice, but it didn't seem like there was much variation there. The voices from the box were just gibberish and freaky, and I didn't like hearing them. This book felt too long. Yes, there is a sense of build-up for the dread, horror, etc., but there was just too much of it. A lot of the information was confusing, and I almost didn't finish several times. I didn't really connect with the characters well. It was just okay. It felt like there was too much going on, switching back and forth between past and present (trying to show the greed of the previous owners of the box). And then there's a love story on top of that. If you like YA love stories that are about apocalypses or the end of the world, you might like this book. Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

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