Where Darkness Blooms: A Novel

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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Published Feb 21, 2023

320 pages

Average rating: 6.67

3 RATINGS

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bookshelf.at.tiffanys
Dec 19, 2024
8/10 stars
The town of Bishop has a strange history and a scary request from some of its residents... Two years ago, three women went missing. Their 4 daughters, Delilah, Bo, Whitney and Jude, left behind to raise themselves. But strange things have been happening over the past 2 years... Young, healthy women are dying from odd inflictions. Delilah, Bo, Whitney and Jude know something is very wrong this time around. The storms the town suffers from aren't usually this strong. And the wind or something else is speaking to them... When one of them starts down the path of the town history, things take an ugly turn...

This book had me hooked within a few chapters. I had to know what was going on and what was going to happen with these young women. Were their moms still alive? Were they going to survive? I honestly had a hard time plugging this one into a specific genre because it fit so many. I would definitely recommend this book to fans of thrillers/mysteries or even mild horror.

My only "complaint" is that the ending felt a little rushed. I don't want to give spoilers, so I won't' say why.

Thank you to NetGalley, Andrea Hannah and St. Martin's Press for an Advanced Review Copy in exchange for my honest review.
Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
6/10 stars
I was given an arc of this from Netgalley and then never finished it.

I was drawn in by the cover. Evil flowers, right up my alley.
I did enjoy it, I just felt the beginning was a bit slow.
I always love a book where women get their revenge.
Men suck.

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