Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"Unholy, vengeful, and utterly captivating. The Bad Ones delivers on Melissa Albert's status as a modern horror master, and burns with a steady, corrosive clarity, not unlike a developing photograph revealing unseen evils." Ryan La Sala, author of The Honeys
Review
"The supernatural creep factor is extreme, and there are secrets aplenty in this compelling and eerie tale." Booklist (Starred Review)
Review
"Albert successfully evokes adolescence's fraught hyperreality using richly textured, authentically angsty characters and a storytelling style by turns ethereal and electric." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series ( The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and Our Crooked Hearts, and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children's Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.