The Bad Ones
- Subject
- Fantasy - Contemporary
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Size
- 13.6 cm × 20.6 cm
- ISBN
- 9781250894892
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!
Bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with The Bad Ones, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history
Goddess, goddess, count to five
In the morning, who’s alive?
In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.
Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town’s past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games. . . .
An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, The Bad Ones is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.
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What reviewers said
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Most Anticipated Book (Goodreads, Tor.com, Book Riot, Audible, and more)
“Melissa Albert weaves a tight mystery that takes on a different shape each time you turn it over in your hands. It’s an eerie ode to girlhood, suburban legends and that one corner of the room you never want to visit in the dark.”
“The supernatural creep factor is extreme, and there are secrets aplenty in this compelling and eerie tale.”
“If you want to stay up all night with a book tightly gripped in your hands, Melissa Albert is the author you need to be reading and The Bad Ones will simply be the latest in a literary addiction you won't want to beat.”
