Jess Lourey

The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. In the summer of '84, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. The locals whisper about The Game, and her mother warns her to stay out of the woods and away from adults. When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what's really going on in Litani. She's not the only one becoming paranoid. Hysteria burns through the community. Dark secrets emerge. And Frankie fears that, even in the bright light of day, she might be living among monsters.

Litani

Kaitlin Cassell

A heartbreaking story, based on the real life events of an alleged child abuse ring in Minnesota during the year of 1984. Told through the eyes of children in this small town during the dark years of The Satanic epidemic, the reader is left with hope and an achingly raw sadness for the survivors. Lourey’s storytelling creates the same feelings of suspense, and at times hysteria, that many folks in these towns were sure to have felt. A dark, yet important, sociological work of literature.

Madhuri Sridhara

Firstly, I'd like to thank Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the advance copy of the ebook.

Definitely another gem by Jess Lourey. Told through the POV of brave and goofy Frankie, we see the suffocating town of Litani and the terrible things that are happening there. The novel works because of Frankie and the children. I was once again transported to my teenage years reading this novel; all the good and bad that comes with childhood is perfectly captured by Lourey. 

The story is a page turner and I was hooked from the beginning. I would definitely recommend the book and the author.

4.5/5

Litani

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