Like the girls who go missing after being Nightjar’s heroine Little Bird in the town parade or the mystery girl who follows Lola everywhere. Harrow Lake is a quirky little town that leans into the fame her father’s film Nightjar brought them, but there are a lot of things the locals don’t care about. It really doesn’t help all her own clothes have disappeared and Lola is stuck wearing her absentee mother’s old wardrobe. She’s so good I’m giving the novel one star more than I would have had I read a print version because this is otherwise a mediocre horror novel.Īfter someone stabs her father, Lola is sent to stay with the maternal grandmother she’s never met and her striking resemblance to her mother puts everyone around her on edge.

I’ve heard good and bad narrators alike and some are really bad at different voices. *Review Contributed by Paige Cee, Staff Reviewer*Īll three narrators of the audiobook are very good at what they do, but the primary narrator is particularly excellent. And if she can’t find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her. The more Lola discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map–and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away.Īnd there’s someone–or something–stalking her every move.

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker–she thinks nothing can scare her.īut when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she’s quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she’s never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father’s most iconic horror movie was shot.

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