Review | The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
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Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. . . An eerie collage of a story that evokes the complexities of discovering the capacity to love and hate the same person.
With a wonderful undercurrent of how the classic monster movies serve to both entertain and enlighten. . . ✨😎✨
Pages: 349
Genre: Thriller
Sub-Genre: Ghost Thriller
Time Period: 1978 - 2019
Location: Vermont
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♡ Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to review it and the opinions contained within are my own.
SYNOPSIS
From the author of The Drowning Kind comes a new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.
1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she’s home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran — teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love.
Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris — silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral — does not behave like a normal girl.
Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them.
Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere.
2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar.
She’s determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real—and one of them is her very own sister.
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