Book description
When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that threatens to break reality, Olivia will stop at nothing to find her best friend and get them to safety.
Mona Award's Bunny meets Stranger Things in this mind-bending and terrifying examination of female friendship…
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1 author picked A Light Most Hateful as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s not often that a book frightens me, but Hailey Piper’s novel A Light Most Hateful pushed all my buttons and then some.
In a wild cross between weird/cosmic horror and natural disaster (should we call it Unnatural Disaster?), a freakish lightning storm upends the small town of Chapel Hill, spawning a giant snakelike monster and turning the townspeople into something akin to zombies.
Teenage Olivia is just one of a small group of survivors trying to escape the town but she seems to have a special connection to the unfolding crisis. I was on the edge of my seat…
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