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Still grieving the loss of her mother, Eden visits Safina Island, her ancestral home, as a healing balm. But when she discovers an old sketchbook that belonged to her mother, she's haunted by the images she sees drawn there. A creepy mansion covered with roots and leaves. A monstrous dog with dagger-sharp teeth. And a tall woman with wind-blown hair and long, sharp nails who is as beautiful as she is terrifying.
Days later, exploring the island alone, Eden follows a black cat through a rift in the bright day. She stumbles into Everdark, a parallel world where the sun never rises, where spirits linger between death and the afterlife, and where everything from her mother's drawings is all too real—especially the Witch of Everdark, who wants to make Eden her eternal daughter.
Can Eden find a way to defeat the witch's magic? Or will she remain trapped in Everdark forever?
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Release date
September 6, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781797151069
- File size: 196079 KB
- Duration: 06:48:29
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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October 3, 2022
Following her botanist mother’s death, 12-year-old Eden Gardener travels with her father to her mother’s birthplace, which her mom mysteriously left following a grave injury at age 12. On Safina Island, off the coast of Georgia, Eden meets her extended maternal relations—descendants of the formerly enslaved inhabitants who’ve owned the north side of the island since the Civil War’s end—as they prepare to celebrate the anniversary of purchasing the land. She encounters, too, a bevy of frightening creatures in her mother’s childhood sketchbook, including a hauntingly beautiful witch in a spirit world known as Everdark. After passing into Everdark through a dark portal, Eden learns that the Witch of Everdark wants to take Eden as her own daughter; it will require all of Eden’s wits, and the magic she inherited from her mother, to escape. Strong (Just South of Home) sets an impeccable scene, imbuing Safina Island with a turbulent history and fully fleshed culture that stands in stark relief to Everdark’s opulence. Though interactions can have an RPG feel, undercutting character connection, Strong portrays the island’s mythos, and Everdark’s extraordinary dangers, to bone-chilling perfection. Ages: 8–12. Agent: Patrice Caldwell, New Leaf Literary & Media. -
Narrator Tovah Ott delicately balances grief and magic in this eerie fantasy audiobook. Twelve-year-old Eden can't escape the numbness that has been consuming her since her mother's death. When she visits Safina Island to connect with her unexplored heritage, Eden follows a black cat into the woods and becomes trapped in Everdark, a world of endless night inhabited by restless spirits. Ott voices Eden with a soft wistfulness that grows into strength as Eden finds power within herself. Ott doesn't hold back on bringing the darkness and horror of this story into her vocal performance. Her creepy tone will wring genuine chills from listeners as Eden learns of the tragedies that lay the foundations for the nightmare world of Everdark and struggles to escape before it's too late. N.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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