Book description
From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously creepy YA speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them.
Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch…
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Nobody can make you aware of the inherent terror of a cornfield quite like a Hoosier. Having grown up in rural Indiana, What Stalks Among Us poked anxieties in me that I wasn't even aware I had.
In Hollowells’s murderous maze, I found myself rooting for and strongly identifying with the main character as she struggled to wrangle her thoughts, communicate her needs, or muster appropriate reactions to the chaos around her. I was rapt to see if the characters could not only survive but also learn how to overcome the very real hangups that sometimes keep us from being…
From Brittany's list on The best book narrators who think and feel too fast and too much.
The idea of characters finding their own dead bodies in a corn maze was pretty much a “Shut up and take my money!” situation, and this book did NOT disappoint.
It starts off weird (in the best possible way) and only gets weirder. I had some ideas of what was going on, but I didn’t bother trying to guess because I was too hooked on the story. There are so many creepy things going on that every chapter is a new horror.
I loved Sadie’s inner dialogue and anxiety, and I loved how she and Logan worked together to try…
From Tyffany's list on The best YA horror books that engage with mental health.
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