Week 36 Review: Where Darkness Blooms

From Goodreads:

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.

The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers' much-delayed memorial.

With secrets come lies, and each of the girls is forced to confront them. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but every time he touches her she feels unbearable pain. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She's sure of it.

Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don't know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and when it's through with them, no one might survive.

My Review:
Man, this was such a fantastic read! To live in this town that had so many women die and disappear, and to have it a common place thing, where the women are mainly judged for that happening to them? Yeah, that would not be a good town to live in! 

This story about these four girls, whose lived together with their moms, moms who have since gone missing, yeah, I really enjoyed getting to know them! It took a minute to see each one as their own person, but having the perspectives in a consistent (I think throughout the book) order helped! 

There were two main mysteries. What happened to their mothers, and the other women in the town, and the founder. That those are tied together, well, it was great to watch the girls put those pieces together. Between that all their relationships and those ups and downs, there was plenty going on in this book! 

That ending though, that was intense. Like, between setting the police station on fire, being tied up and one of them knifed to the point that the attacker thought she was dead, yeah, that was a lot. I'm really glad that we got a decent time afterwards to close off the book! 

Loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Andrea Hannah! 

Author: Andrea Hannah
Read: September 5th, 2023
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2023 Book, Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Published: February 21st 2023

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars