Hello, Horror Fiends,

I am excited to share with you a pre-order campaign for The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne! I am in the middle of reading my ARC, and I am absolutely loving it. It is heartbreaking and terrifying in all of the best ways. I can already tell that this is going to be a five-star read for me. Stay tuned for my review!

I read Tatiana’s YA debut, Such Lovely Skin, last year and was blown away by it. Tatiana is such a lovely person and an extremely talented author. She brings a fresh and raw voice to the horror genre, and I love how she incorporates mental health, trauma, and grief into her writing. She does so with ease, which is not something that is easy to do. It blows me away.

Find all of the info you need about The Mean Ones below, including the pre-order link!

Midsommar meets The Final Girl Support Group in this horror novel about a woman who survived cult killings as a child and is striving to be “normal,” but a spontaneous trip into the woods and the voices in her head keep pulling her to the dark side.

So what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered.

But the murders were seventeen years ago, back when her name was Sabrina. Now, she’s Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old. She works as a physical therapist assistant and lifts weights with her boyfriend, Lucas, who’s the sweetest, most considerate man–as long as he’s not angry. But when Lucas spontaneously agrees to join a couples trip to a cabin in the woods, the visions get worse, a strange figure stalks her during the night, and that male voice in Sadie’s head keeps calling, asking her to do things she’s never fathomed.

Sadie’s not sure if it’s her paranoia or something else entirely . . . But she is sure of one thing–this time, she’s not going to sit idly by as everything starts to unravel.