Where Darkness Blooms
Andrea Hannah
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Where Darkness Blooms
Andrea Hannah
2 ratings • 1 reviews
Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood. The town of Bishop is known for exactly two recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women―missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial. With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it. Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood―and now it craves theirs.
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Thank you, Net Galley and Wednesday for letting me have an eARC of this book months and months ago.
I so want to love this book. The cover is gorgeous so I clicked on the request as soon as I saw it. But, I have mixed feelings now that I read it.
Did I enjoy it? Yes. Will I buy it? I am not sure.
The ending had suspense, danger, and on-the-edge-of-my-seat action. But the beginning could have had more stuff to it. The worldbuilding was about confusing, but I got the hang of it. There really was no subplot. It was all about this big mystery (that was revealed in the book's first pages.
That is one of my biggest pet peeves in books. I dislike when authors reveal something really big in the prologue. It is like a dramatic irony we really didn’t need. I would have loved to learn the town’s secret along with the main characters.
If the introduction chapter was not in the book, I think the book would have had more suspense. Or they included it later in the book because it was a little haunting story.
The main plot was good, but I kept dragging myself through it. I needed more stuff to concentrate on. I needed more of certain plot points.
I have a list of questions at the bottom that I am just dying to understand. They may be spoilers so don’t read them if you haven’t read it.
I hope you pick this book up and read it. I am not sure if I will buy it because I only want books I enjoyed on my shelf. But it is so pretty.
Also please look up the trigger warnings for this book. The eARC had a list of triggers written on the first page which was very helpful.
(sort of a spoiler)
There is a relationship that blooms in two pages and then is snuffed out. I wanted more of this romance. Why did they make that person seem like such a bad person then give them a redemption arc and then end them right away?
The three moms' living situation is not well explained. I can’t tell if they were all friends or maybe more. I could have missed it, but it just seemed like they were all friends. But why did they live in the same house?
I also don’t get the layout of this town. Apparently, there are sunflowers everywhere, but they live in a town, and they only surround the town. So how do they tap on windows and other things while they are in the middle of town?
Just some questions I have for this book.
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