Book: Where Darkness Blooms

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Author: Andrea Hannah

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Thank you NetGalley and OrangeSky Audio for an advanced audio copy.

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Where Darkness Blooms had me hooked just from the summary. Unfortunately once I got into the book there was nothing it could do to keep me hooked. The book takes place in the town of Bishop. Bishop does not sound like a town anyone would want to live in. Women keep going missing and there are violent windstorms. Who would live here?

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The story follows four young women in the wake of their mother’s disappearance. Whitney, Jude, Delilah, and Bo. I did not find any of the girls to be all that interesting. The four of them almost blended together to be one character. I had a hard time remembering who was who since the details never grabbed me. It didn’t help that in the audio version all the characters sounded the same.

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I felt that the book was going to get better. Chapter after chapter I waited but it just didn’t come. There was one chapter towards the end that I thought it was going to finally make it over that hill. I thought there was going to be a surprise death but it just didn’t happen. Speaking of death. There was a death in the middle book and there was such a lack of emotion that it almost took me out of the story completely. I wanted so much more from this

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Sadly I have a hard time recommending this one

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Final score 2/5