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THE SUBURBS, RIGHT NOW . . .
Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.
THE CITY, BACK THEN . . .
Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural, set in a city of magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.
Eldon Frami @lwiza_994
August 13, 2022
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I don't know whether to thank Mimi or yell at her. I literally cannot read Our Crooked Hearts for more than an hour. It is so rich with detail and implication, so full of wonder and fear, so intense a read that I have to come up for air. I have only read one other book like this, and that was The Hazel Wood. Hearts makes that one look like a trip to the (occult) store. Thank you Melissa Albert!