I have actually been chasing after the high I felt after reading Little Favors by Erin A. Craig in 2015 since I completed that magnificently awful meadow Gothic, and I believe I have actually lastly discovered something I can compare it to: What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat.

While this book occurs (probably) in the contemporary, and there’s no confusion of “is this a cult or a homesteading settlement,” the story does focus around a neighborhood of farm households who are dealing with an unusual scary that is ravaging their crops.

The founding households of Hollow’s End have actually been farming the land there for generations. The household’s all have their own specializeds that travelers call “wonder crops,” consisting of the rainbowlike wheat that the primary character’s household grows. However one day they start to discover something weird: a silver-tinged mercury blight starts taking control of the crops, individuals go missing out on, and gradually however undoubtedly, the farms begin to fade and the town is put under a rigorous quarantine.

Then, contaminated animals start to come back in the evening, coming out from the fog-covered forest. A curfew is put in location to secure the staying locals from whatever these animals are, and nobody is enabled to go into or leave the town.

If this seems like a headache scenario to you, you’re definitely right. The primary character, Wren, understands that these scaries are not natural, and just something ominous might trigger her enjoyed ones to stalk the town in the evening, taking whatever living things they can discover back into the woods.

What We Harvest is a story of survival and hope, and doing whatever you can to conserve individuals and locations you enjoy. There are tricks concealing in the forest, in cold, dark basements, and locked away in the past, however absolutely nothing remains concealed permanently.

I discovered this book to be exceptionally quick paced, dark, spooky, strange, and a little gory sometimes, with the best quantity of teenage love and angst sprayed in also. If you’re a fan of YA scary make certain to select this one up.

Thank you to the publisher, Penguin Teenager Canada, for sending me a digital copy to check out and examine.