Bride of the Tornado
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
“A powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare.”—The Guardian
Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this surreal, mind-bending horror-thriller.
In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.
The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.
Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying fever dream of a novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kennedy (Dare to Know) puts an eerie, surrealist twist on the American Midwest, highlighting everything unusual about small-town living. The unnamed narrator, a teenage girl, introduces readers to a town that is routinely threatened by tornados. Her life is upended when she learns of "the tornado killer," a local teenage boy with the ability to control winds—and thus the potential to prevent future damage—who seems to be tied into a community-wide conspiracy. As the narrator investigates the boy's powers and origins, she comes to realize that they have a strange, unspoken bond. Meanwhile, more abnormalities sweep through the town: locals begin wearing odd talismans and other teen girls clad in white ceremonial dresses are led to the house of the town outcast. The narrator's dread mounts as she races to uncover what's really going on. The novel runs mostly on vibes, with Kennedy's dreamlike storytelling occasionally coming at the expense of complete character arcs. Still, the focus on creating a desolate and strange atmosphere pays off. Horror fans who value ambience over jump scares will want to check this out.
