fiendish

“Fiendish”

SYNOPSIS:
Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten.

Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why.

When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy named Fisher sets her free. Back in the world, Clementine sets out to discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend, and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly temperamental ever since Clementine reemerged.

WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?
Somehow Clementine was protected through magic, unable to die but trapped. Seriously, her house was burned down on top of her after she was shoved into a closet in a basement, lips and eyes sewn shut. That has to be hell on your mind–and we’re sure it means she’ll bring down the fires on her enemies. This one seems like a much darker BEAUTIFUL CREATURES setting and story.

With great curving strokes of tree roots, overgrown flowerbeds and ivy, cracked and peeling paint on the siding, this cover seeks to draw us in and spit us out. The house in the distance might not be one we’d ever want to step foot in, but it only makes us more eager to crack open the pages and get reading.

We’ve been following author Brenna Yovanoff since she broke into the YA scene with her changeling story, THE REPLACEMENT. Her unique suburban horror settings along with varied and nuanced characters brings us back to her time and again. If you haven’t checked out her work before, you have to pick up a copy of her novels today!

EARLY REVIEWS SAY…
The atmosphere in Yovanoff’s latest is eerily reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, if only Harper Lee’s Maycomb residents had been given magical families as a focus for their bigotry. … This beguiling amalgamation of the magical and modern worlds will have readers mesmerized.(Kirkus Reviews) 

Yovanoff has a masterful touch with dialogue, and her supernatural world deftly combines Southern tradition with horrors of her own creation. … [T]his unnerving story will entice her fans or anyone who loves dark fantasy. (Publishers Weekly)

NECESSARY DETAILS
YA Paranormal Romance
Hardcover & ebook, 352 pages
Published on August 14th 2014 by Razorbill (ISBN 1595146385)
http://www.penguin.com/book/fiendish-by-brenna-yovanoff/9781595146380