Delicious Monsters
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4.6 • 14 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists.” —Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston
The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this “genuinely terrifying” (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.
Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. So when her mother inherits a secluded mansion in northern Ontario where she spent her childhood summers, Daisy jumps at the chance to escape. But the house is nothing like Daisy expects, and she begins to realize that her experience with the supernatural might be no match for her mother’s secrets, nor what lurks within these walls…
A decade later, Brittney is desperate to get out from under the thumb of her abusive mother, a bestselling author who claims her stay at “Miracle Mansion” allowed her to see the error of her ways. But Brittney knows that’s nothing but a sham. She decides the new season of her popular Haunted web series will uncover what happened to a young Black girl in the mansion ten years prior and finally expose her mother’s lies. But as she gets more wrapped up in the investigation, she’ll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light, which one matters most—Daisy’s or her own?
As Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Daisy’s story runs parallel in the past, both timelines propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters of all: those that hide in plain sight.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Via dual perspectives told a decade apart, two Black teens strive to uncover the secrets of a haunted house in this gripping psychological thriller by Sambury (Blood Like Fate). The house that 17-year-old Daisy's late uncle left to her and her mother seemed to represent an answer to the family's financial struggles, an escape from Daisy's persistent visions of macabre ghosts, and a fresh start from her physically and emotionally abusive 21-year-old boyfriend, who recently dumped her without warning. But there is something sinister about their new home, and Daisy's mother seems to know more about it than she's letting on before tragedy strikes. Ten years later, the house is an AirBnB with a cult following that was spearheaded by college student Brittney's emotionally abusive bestselling author mother, who claims her stay at the house—dubbed the Miracle Mansion—"changed her for the better." But Brittney wants to expose it for the "house of horrors" she believes it is by uncovering its history for her investigative web show, Haunted. Using speculative elements to cultivate genuinely terrifying scares whose perpetrators straddle the line between imagined and real-life monsters, Sambury empathetically highlights cycles of abuse, depression, and generational trauma. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
An Interesting Read For Sure
I enjoyed the uniqueness of the story, it would catch me off guard a lot and I don’t think I’ve ever come across a book like this. This is my first book by this author, but the way that Liselle Sambury writes makes me want to read her other books. It took me 3 months to read it, but I’m proud to have finally finished it — it’s also my first time finishing an ebook. Anyways, thank you for this interesting journey, Liselle Sambury!
I loved this book so much!
This book was so beautifully written and put together so well. I loved the story being told from 2 points of view, one of which is 10 years later. I found that the more I kept reading, the more I cared about these characters. Such a meaningful story as well and I didn’t expect to get emotional at times too. I enjoyed this book so much and has a special place in my heart. I highly recommend this one!