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The Drowning House

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Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads. —Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the aftermath, leaving two of his childhood friends to comb the small, isolated island for answers—but decades have passed since Melissa and Leo were close if they were ever close at all.

Now they'll have to put aside old rivalries and grudges if they want to find or save the man who brought them together in the first place—and on the way they'll learn a great deal about the sinister house on the beach, the man who built it, and the evil he's bringing back to Marrowstone Island.

From award-winning author Cherie Priest comes a deeply haunting and atmospheric horror-thriller that explores the lengths we'll go to protect those we love.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Two childhood friends, Melissa and Leo, reconnect through the death of a friend's grandmother. When they arrive at the remote island where they lived as kids, they find their friend missing, and their grief quickly turns to sleuthing. Narrator Mara Wilson keeps the plot moving as the pair slowly uncover dark forces on the island. Wilson expresses their frustration through their occasional sniping. But they know they must unite to find their friend. The plot's minimal number of characters allows Wilson to focus on the two protagonists. This audiobook is for those who like stories that intertwine mystery and the supernatural. M.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2024

      When a storm washes a house up onto the beach, Simon's grandmother, who recognizes the house from her nightmares, rushes into the rain. She subsequently dies on the beach, with her fears and warnings unspoken. Then Simon disappears. His two childhood best friends, Melissa and Leo, go looking for him, hardly able to make sense of--or even fully remember--the uncanny things Simon's grandmother would say and do, but they'll need to if they want any chance to rescue Simon and save the world from something unfathomable. Actor and narrator Mara Wilson delivers Priest's detailed prose with well-enunciated pleasantness, which creates an effective dissonant crash against the slowly rising tension. As she did in her prior novel, Cinderwich, Priest ensures listeners truly know her characters before she unleashes eldritch horror upon them. Alongside this, Wilson knows how to narrate the calm before the storm as well as she later amps up the panic and tension. She's especially skilled at adding age to her characters, whether it's the trio of friends as preteens, a nearly 100-year-old woman, or any age in between. VERDICT A haunting and eerily atmospheric story of regrets, missed opportunities, and the terrible things the tide brings in.--Matthew Galloway

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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