Dark Things I Adore

De: Katie Lattari

Narrado por: Jim Meskimen, Stacey Glemboski, Nicol Zanzarella

A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees.

Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, 30 years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay.

The year 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. They’re the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed.

The year 2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégé’s remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web.

Only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max’s secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won’t be easy, Audra knows someone must pay.

A searing psychological thriller of trauma, dark academia, complicity, and revenge, Dark Things I Adore unravels the realities behind campfire legends - the horrors that happen in the dark, the girls who become cautionary tales, and the guilty who go unpunished. Until now.

©2021 Katie Lattari (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

WHAT?!

Oh my goodness. This book keeps you on your toes the entire time. What you think is going to happen? Forget that. Literally so many twists and turns. I began to question who we could and couldn’t trust. I finished this book so quickly and immediately felt the need to recommend it to everyone. Definitely recommend if you like murder mysteries/ true crime!!

Great read

Each character was very interesting. A very interesting story using very different characters was nice change

Good story, great ending

While I’m not an artist, nor ever will be, I enjoyed the storyline. My issue was keeping track in my mind the artists real names and their art colony pseudonyms. I finally had to resort to pen and paper to keep everyone straight. Otherwise, while I found the hiding places of the notes to be dubious, I liked the book.

good contemporary horror

found this to be a good contemporary twist on a horror story, and found the narration to be excellent

Okay ready, but

I think it’s okay read, plot is pretty right there from the beginning. Going back and forth in timeline makes the story a bit slow and tedious sometimes, but things makes sense at the end. The way it is written focus more about the emotions and sense than conversation or description.
It was an okay read for me