Dear Hanna

A Novel

De: Zoje Stage

Narrado por: Helen Laser

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up.

Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy—and writing letters to her younger brother—has since curbed those nasty tendencies.

Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people.

But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart. With life slipping out of her control, Hanna reverts to old habits, determined to manipulate the events and people around her. And the only thing worse than a baby sociopath is a fully grown one.

With its dark humor and chillingly seductive protagonist, Dear Hanna is a standalone sequel sure to thrill returning and new readers alike.

©2024 Zoje Stage (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“All will squirm uncomfortably and yet be unwilling to look away, furiously turning the pages until the final twist is revealed. A great choice for those who enjoy the work of Sarah Pinborough, Catriona Ward, and Katrina Monroe.”—Booklist

“Zoje Stage takes us into the disordered mind of her conscience-free protagonist, and it’s not a pretty sight…Dear Hanna is a good read.”—New York Journal of Books

“Original, memorable, deftly crafted, horrifically chilling, Dear Hanna is a simply riveting read from start to finish…Very highly recommended…”—Midwest Book Review

Fantastic sequel to Baby Teeth!

Baby Teeth is one of my favorite books of all time! And this sequel did not disappoint! Loved it! 5 stars! The narration is fantastic!

Decent read

I LOVE that this takes place in the Burgh, so awesome to see my neighborhood depicted. The story was cool, narration on point, tho they shoulda used someone with a yinzer accent to make it better, we don't talk like that here. The plot was ok, tho it didn't quite ring the same as the lil girl we met in baby teeth. Great book, but just like baby teeth, the ending was very lacking, like there really wasn't a real resolution. Idk... still a fun read.

Hanna is as devious as ever!

This was an amazing sequel! Hanna is such a fun character. She’s deliciously devious and slowly unhinges as the story progresses. Zoje did a wonderful job incorporating Hanna’s past issues into this story in a meaningful way that truly explains Hanna’s actions and thought processes. Please keep writing Hanna’s adventures! Hanna is the female Joe Goldberg, and I love it!

the dive into craziness

I pretty much had a sense of the story and what was going to happen from the beginning. It was fun to revisit this character though.

kind of what I was expecting, but with more disappointment

I really liked the 1st book and was excited to see there was a follow up about Hanna being grown, but it's not like she actually grew up. The story starts like she has grown and for a psychopath has matured enough to "get along" in the world but as the story goes on she reverts back to being a child more and more. Maybe this was done on purpose but I don't feel it worked well, especially while she's simultaneously talking about having sex with her husband. The incessant need for her to bring up Jo getting an abortion and how it's "just a fetus" and "clump of cells" or "an alien sucking off it's Mother's life" was annoying. It is an understandable thing to suggest in the situation but going back to it over and over just seemed like the writers way of making sure we knew she's pro-choice. The absolute horror of Boyd being hunter was over the top, just for it to end of becoming a moot point and never being brought up again also just seemed like a way to throw in her personal views. Anyone who read the first one could see where the Goose storyline was going. Overall it was a let down and I had to force myself to finish the last 2 hours just to see if something good actually happened...and it didn't.