I’ve been chasing the excessive I felt after studying Small Favors by Erin A. Craig final 12 months ever since I completed that fantastically dreadful prairie Gothic, and I believe I’ve lastly discovered one thing I can evaluate it to: What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat.
While this e-book takes place (presumably) within the modern-day, and there’s no confusion of “is that this a cult or a homesteading settlement,” the story does focus on a neighborhood of farm households who’re dealing with an unexplained horror that’s devastating their crops.
The founding households of Hollow’s End have been farming the land there for generations. The household’s all have their very own specialties that vacationers name “miracle crops,” together with the iridescent wheat that the principle character’s household grows. But in the future they start to note one thing unusual: a silver-tinged mercury blight begins taking on the crops, folks go lacking, and slowly however certainly, the farms begin to fade and the city is put below a strict quarantine.
Then, contaminated animals start to reappear at evening, popping out from the fog-covered forest. A curfew is put in place to guard the remaining residents from no matter these creatures are, and nobody is allowed to enter or depart the city.
If this feels like a nightmare scenario to you, you’re completely proper. The predominant character, Wren, is aware of that these horrors usually are not pure, and solely one thing sinister might trigger her family members to stalk the city at evening, taking no matter residing issues they will discover again into the woods.
What We Harvest is a narrative of survival and hope, and doing no matter you may to avoid wasting the folks and locations you’re keen on. There are secrets and techniques hiding within the forest, in chilly, darkish basements, and locked away up to now, however nothing stays hidden ceaselessly.
I discovered this e-book to be extremely quick paced, darkish, eerie, mysterious, and slightly gory at instances, with the proper quantity of teenage love and angst sprinkled in as nicely. If you’re a fan of YA horror remember to choose this one up.
Thank you to the writer, Penguin Teen Canada, for sending me a digital copy to learn and overview.