The Unfinished

De: Cheryl Isaacs

Narrado por: Julie Lumsden

In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the listeners into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.

When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten.

The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive.

Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery—taking a new form each time—people in town begin to go missing.

Though Avery had heard whispers of monsters from her Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) relatives, she has never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories. But the Elders she has distanced herself from now may have the answers she needs.

When Key, her best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, Avery is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanien’kéha:ka and save the town but lose her friend forever…or listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back.

An unmissable horror novel for listeners who devoured Trang Thanh Tran’s She Is a Haunting or Claire Legrand’s Sawkill Girls!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Cheryl Isaacs (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Eerie and chaotic! Loved it!

This book dives right into the chaos. It thoroughly freaked me out and gave me the heebie jeebies! Avery is a young Mohawk girl who has stumbled her way into an urban legend turned to life.

You know those stories that your aunties and grandmas and uncles used to tell you to warn you away from doing something dangerous? Well in this book, the FMC doesn't listen to that little voice in the back of her head, and does exactly what she's been told time and time again not to do. And guess what happens? Everything she was warned about!

I loved this book because it had me imagining all the different ways that my life could have gone awry had I not listened to my mom and dad. The heroie in this book has to either give in to the darkness that's threatening to consume her, or do what no one else has ever been able to successfully do and fight back. This was a great YA book, and I highly recommend.