Delicious Monsters

By Liselle Sambury

Book Overview

"A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists." --Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this "genuinely terrifying" (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.

Daisy sees dead people--something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she's completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. So when her mother inherits a secluded mansion in northern Ontario where she spent her childhood summers, Daisy jumps at the chance to escape. But the house is nothing like Daisy expects, and she begins to realize that her experience with the supernatural might be no match for her mother's secrets, nor what lurks within these walls...

A decade later, Brittney is desperate to get out from under the thumb of her abusive mother, a bestselling author who claims her stay at "Miracle Mansion" allowed her to see the error of her ways. But Brittney knows that's nothing but a sham. She decides the new season of her popular Haunted web series will uncover what happened to a young Black girl in the mansion ten years prior and finally expose her mother's lies. But as she gets more wrapped up in the investigation, she'll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light, which one matters most--Daisy's or her own?

As Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Daisy's story runs parallel in the past, both timelines propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters of all: those that hide in plain sight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665903503
• ISBN13: 9781665903509
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Ghosts!

If you’re into Buzzfeed Unsolved & Haunting of Hill House (I’m talking about the excellent show, not the excellent book), you might be into this. It’s not for the faint of heart, if you have a hard time reading about child SA, child abuse, child neglect, gaslighting, grooming, suicide, animal death, fatphobia, body horror/gore, violence, and death, you might struggle with this one. I will say if you can brave it, it all ends nicely in my opinion. One star off because 500 pages was really a stretch for this book, I’m sorry, and also I needed way more Brittany chapters, I loved her.

An amazing read.

I was hooked from beginning to end, I couldn’t put the book down. There was never a dull moment. Currently purchasing the rest of Liselle Sambury’s books!