"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
BY KRISTEN SIMMONS
Goodreads Description:
AT DAWN HE’LL BE GONE AND YOU’LL BE HERE FOREVER.
Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout horror novel that's "Jumanji but Japanese-inspired" (Kendare Blake) about estranged friends playing a deadly game in a nightmarish folkloric underworld.
“Intense.” —Kendare Blake • “Unforgettable.” —Margaret Rogerson • “Bone-chilling.” —Lauren Shippen • “Twisted.” —Lish McBride • “Won't let me sleep!” —Chelsea Mueller
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived.
Now,
at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen,
Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible
reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left
for dead.
Together they return to the place where their
friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they
restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching
challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.
As soon as
they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an eerie
hellscape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the darkest
folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet Shinigami,
an old wise woman who explains the rules:
They have one night to complete seven challenges or they'll all be stuck in this world forever.
Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but
the challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make
sacrifices—blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.
And once again, not everyone will make it out alive.
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Expected Publication: September 26, 2023 by Tor Teen
Pre-Order: Book Depository and Blackwells and Amazon
Eee! I am so very excited about this book :D Ahh! I think it looks gorgeous. <3 Love that cover. It sounds so epic too, eee :D I just know that I will love this one. <3 I'm a bit behind on books by Kristen, but I have read a bunch of her books, and enjoyed them all :) So this new one is going to be great. I cannot wait :)
What are you waiting for on this eerie Wednesday?
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