White Smoke

White Smoke

Hardback
5.35

By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.

Description

The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson!Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper.The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its . . . secrets. That’s only half the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only Mari seems to notice. Worse: Piper keeps talking about a friend who wants Mari gone.But “running from ghosts” is just a metaphor, right?As the house closes in, Mari learns that the danger isn’t limited to Maple Street. Cedarville has its secrets, too. And secrets always find their way through the cracks.* An Amazon Best Book of the Month * Parade's Best YA Books of the Year * Indigo Best Books of the Year * SLJ Best Books of the Year * Kirkus Best Books of the Year * A YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year *

Book Information

Main Genre
Young Adult Books
Sub Genre
Family
Format
Hardback
Pages
384
Price
19.00 €

Posts

2
All
10

This was the first book I read by her and it’s definitely the best one out there. In the story we follow along a black family that recently lost everything due to a house fire and they are moving into a house that recently got rebuilt or reconstructed and it’s the first house in the neighbourhood that is done and ready to move into. Apparently there is this organisation that lives of donations and is also highly connected to the church and they built these houses or reconstruct them so that people can live in them for free especially people that recently lost everything and need a new place to live in. At first everything looks totally fine and there’s nothing wrong with the house but then we enter some haunting discoveries and also there’s a ghost living in this house that is trying to get rid of the new people moving into and it seems like the ghost is attached to the little girl called Piper and hates Piper’s older sister well her stepsister and is trying to get rid of her

5

Totally loved this book. It was one of the first scary books I have ever read and therefore I was a bit sceptic at first because I wasn't sure if its the right book for me or not, but after reading the first three chapters I totally fell in love with it and wasn't able to stop reading it. I actually had to limit my reading time to 20 minutes per day because otherwise I would have finished it way sooner and would have been left without a good book for a few days, because this one had me like a drug in it's system. I also loved how Tiffany D Jackson made it clear that although we live in 2023 now, black people still have some trouble with others not wanting them near them and harassing them without any reasons. Totally would go for another book she wrote which by the way I already purchased, it's called "Monday's not coming"

Create Post