{"product_id":"extasia-isbn-9780062696649","title":"Extasia","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of BuzzFeed's Great LGBTQ+ YA novels to Warm up Your Winter * A Kid's Feb\/March IndieNext pick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil that’s stalking her village. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Grace Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is unimportant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain—an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother’s shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis searing and lyrically written novel by the critically acclaimed author of Sawkill Girls beckons readers to follow its fierce heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood—where the truth is buried in lies and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWitches and Covens:\u003c\/b\u003e To save her people, she must join a secret sisterhood of saints—but their forbidden power comes from a source darker than she could ever imagine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eReligious Horror:\u003c\/b\u003e In the oppressive, pious village of Haven, women are saints or sinners. When a devastating evil targets the men, a fierce heroine must embrace a forbidden power to fight back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSupernatural \u0026amp; Body Horror:\u003c\/b\u003e White-eyed beasts stalk her steps and the bodies of the dead are left horrifically mutilated. Amity must confront these terrors while hiding secrets of her own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLGBTQ+ Dark Fantasy:\u003c\/b\u003e Among the village’s darkest secrets is one Amity can’t forget: two girls kissing in the elm grove. In a world where love like theirs is a sin, this forbidden knowledge could be her damnation—or her salvation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Legrand crafts a fiercely unsubtle feminist fantasy that takes on the patriarchy and the toxicity of hate.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSawkill Girls\u003c\/em\u003e:   ★“Through this dank, atmospheric, and genuinely frightening narrative, Legrand weaves powerful threads about the dangerous journey of growing up female…an intensely character-driven story about girls who support each other, girls who betray each other, and girls who love each other in many complicated ways. Strange, eerie, and unforgettable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eALA Booklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e★“Legrand’s lush and pensive prose matches the murky, dangerous, and beautiful island setting.... Rich and earthy horror.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e★“This atmospheric, Gothic-flavored chiller, which mingles elements of dark fairy tales and outright horror... includes an asexual character and a beautifully wrought queer romance, [and] focuses on the power of female friendship and what it means to pit women against one another in fiction and in life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e★”Cinematically, gorgeously creepy and horrific, sliding between breathlessly suspenseful and disturbingly grotesque.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e★”Legrand accomplishes the kind of slow-building tension and mounting horror that will give readers night terrors. Read this book, then lock it in the freezer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Legrand successfully brings a supernatural gruesomeness to her exploration of morality and agency.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Slow-burn horror meets a queer coming-of-age story, with compassionately explored themes of feminism, grief, trauma, faith, and abuse. A YA fantasy complement to Naomi Alderman’s The Power; fans of Legrand will find this an interesting new approach, as will readers of Rory Power and \u003cem\u003eHouse of Hollow\u003c\/em\u003e by Krystal Sutherland.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eThe Craft\u003c\/em\u003e. Readers will be riveted by Legrand’s fierce female characters and their harrowing emotional journey.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Entertaining.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Part spine-chilling horror story and part coming-of-age lesbian romance… If you are looking for something to scare you awake at night, this is the book for you.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Claire Legrand tells an eerie, feminist horror story that’s perfect for reading close to Halloween.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With prose as fierce and uncompromising as its three main characters, SAWKILL GIRLS is a fresh and unflinching exploration of female friendship wrapped in a spine-tingling page-turner. Claire Legrand doesn’t hold back--and you won’t be able to put this book down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reader, hang on for dear life. \u003cem\u003eSawkill Girls\u003c\/em\u003e is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMindy McGinnis, author of The Female of the Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Old-school horror meets fresh, female-forward fury. Claire Legrand masterfully paints this island world of terror with a blood-soaked brush.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElana K. 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