The stunning disappearance of 4 folks infuses suburban Palmetto, Illinois, with confusion and worry in Melissa Albert’s gripping supernatural horror thriller, The Bad Ones.
Among the lacking is highschool junior Nora Powell’s finest good friend, Becca Cross. As youngsters, the duo established a inventive partnership and spent hours within the woods collectively, with Nora writing tales in regards to the goddesses they imagined, whereas Becca took images. When Becca’s mother and father died, Nora did her finest to soak up Becca’s grief and be a supply of fidelity in an unstable world. But as Becca’s demeanor turned darker, revealing a discomfiting need for vengeance, the women started to float aside.
As The Bad Ones begins, they haven’t spoken for months. Nonetheless, when Nora will get a textual content from Becca within the center of the night time, she rushes to Becca’s home and is nonplussed to find she isn’t there. Nora’s bewilderment transforms into alarm when she realizes no one has any thought what may’ve befallen Becca or the opposite three lacking folks, due to a weird lack of witnesses or proof.
Tentative hope arrives within the type of clues Becca left for Nora, many of them referencing the goddess-centric actions of their youth and the city legend that impressed them. Perhaps, if Nora can uncover the origins of the goddess sport Palmetto college students have been taking part in for many years, she will be able to determine the place Becca went—and what she could have carried out. Nora ultimately permits her classmates—shy, good-looking James and newbie reporter Ruth—to hitch her efforts. Can they unravel the mysteries swirling round that fateful night time earlier than another person disappears?
Albert, bestselling creator of the Hazel Wood collection and Our Crooked Hearts, expertly alternates between highschool mundanity and supernatural spookiness, complemented by a formidable aptitude for the atmospheric. The Bad Ones is a compelling, typically delightfully creepy coming-of-age story that thoughtfully explores the character of friendship, grief and the perilous energy of unwavering perception.
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