The Unfinished
HarperCollins · Hardcover · September 3, 2024
An American Indian Youth Literature Award Honoree In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense supernatural horror story where unsettling visions meet Mohawk stories and a town’s buried fears.
- Themes
- Indigenous cultural reconnection, Supernatural horror, Friendship and romantic feelings
- Genres
- YA Horror, Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens, Native American YA
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An American Indian Youth Literature Award Honoree In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged. When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten. The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive.
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Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery—taking a new form each time—people in town begin to go missing. Though Avery had heard whispers of monsters from her Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) relatives, she has never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories. But the Elders she has distanced herself from now may have the answers she needs. When Key, her best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, Avery is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanien’kéha:ka and save the town but lose her friend forever…or listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back. An unmissable horror novel for readers who devoured Trang Thanh Tran’s She Is a Haunting or Claire Legrand’s Sawkill Girls!
Dark Waters
A tense supernatural horror story where unsettling visions meet Mohawk stories and a town’s buried fears.
Come here for
- Black-water dread and monsters that keep changing shape
- A young woman reconnecting with stories from her Mohawk relatives
Expect
- An edgy, immersive YA thriller
- Mystery, missing townspeople, and a difficult choice
Where it sits
| YA Horror | 93% |
|---|---|
| Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens | 38% |
| Native American YA | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Horror
- Myths & Legends for Teens
- Monster Tales for Teens
- YA Mysteries
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- Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
- Indigenous Voices for Teens
- Native American YA
- Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Authors
- Cheryl Isaacs
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 3, 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Indigenous cultural reconnection · Supernatural horror · Friendship and romantic feelings
- Reading lane
- YA Horror