The Waking Dark - Softcover

Robin Wasserman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907411453 ISBN 13: 9781907411458

Publisher: Atom, 2013

Synopsis

The town of Oleander is postcard perfect.

Until one day.

The day the Devil came to Oleander.

Whatever they called it, through the months to come - through the funerals and the dinners and the sidelong glances between formerly trusting neighbours - it was all anyone could talk about. It seemed safe to assume it was all anyone would ever talk about, just as it was assumed that Oleander had been changed for ever, and that, once buried, the bodies would stay in the ground.

But then the storms came . . .

About this title

Review:

Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, July 29, 2013:
"Wasserman (The Book of Blood and Shadow) delivers an exceptional horror novel that will lead to inevitable (and deserved) Stephen King comparisons... The novel works just as well as mainstream horror as YA, and the ending is both effective and brutal."

Starred Review, Booklist, August 1, 2013:
"The Waking Dark is a horror story worthy of Stephen King... It's a violent, edgy, well-written, and foreboding novel, so realistic that readers can only hope it's simply fiction."

Starred Review, School Library Journal, July 2013:
"Great dialogue and intriguing subplots add to the action-packed story, which will have readers frantically flipping pages. Wasserman sustains a truly spooky mood throughout, and the suspense doesn't let up until the final pages."

Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, October 2013:
"Masterful pacing and brilliant scene-setting work to make sure readers can't leave Oleander until the final page."

Book Description:

A dark, horror thriller from acclaimed writer Robin Wasserman

About this edition

• Publisher: Atom
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907411453
• ISBN 13: 9781907411458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464