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White Smoke
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times best-selling author Tiffany D. Jackson!
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty 10-year-old stepsister, Piper.
The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its...secrets. That’s only half the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only Mari seems to notice. Worse: Piper keeps talking about a friend who wants Mari gone.
But “running from ghosts” is just a metaphor, right?
As the house closes in, Mari learns that the danger isn’t limited to Maple Street. Cedarville has its secrets, too. And secrets always find their way through the cracks.
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A YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-06-22
Creepy and well done!
Really enjoyed this! Was creepy as hell and easy to get through. I wish it had been longer to dig into some of the race and prison aspects more but given it is a YA novel, I guess high level was better.
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- Steph
- 31-10-21
Good but left me wanting more
White Smoke is a part classic horror, part psychological thriller that follows Marigold, a young lady as she moves to a new town with her brother, mom and her mom’s new husband and his daughter. It isn’t long before Mari realises her new home may have more ghosts than the one she is running away from. But with a past like hers, will anyone believe her?
The classic horror elements were well executed and would translate well on screen, as the tension and timing were on point throughout. Admittedly I didn’t find it scary as such, but I don’t find horror scary. 🤷🏾♀️
However there were a couple of the themes that I was excited about diving into:
•Living with anxiety disorder.
•Racial disparities in marijuana enforcement in the U.S. (where Black people are 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people).
Sadly, I did not feel that either theme was explored enough for me to feel satisfied, and parts of the racial elements felt like they were forgotten.
My main issue was the portrayal of Mari’s anxiety disorder, having lived with it myself. It was clear that Mari had several complex mental health issues, which were thrown under the anxiety umbrella. There was also a half hearted attempt late in the book to show the downsides to Mari’s weed addiction. I found it negligent to not show that weed can trigger panic or anxiety attacks in some, especially since she spent half the book drooling for it.
Then there was the fact that she kept saying she had ‘anxiety’. Everyone experiences anxiety and that alone is not a mental health issue. It’s when it becomes disordered that it is a problem and it’s important to know that feeling anxious isn’t a mental health problem necessarily.
To make it worse, I didn’t like Mari. I didn’t like Piper. In fact, the only characters I liked were Sammy, Yusef and Buddy.
The writing itself was good, I just wanted more. And I wanted a longer ending.
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- Debz
- 20-12-21
Brilliant Book
excellent book. I absolutely loved the narrator. Brilliant Story and well thought out characters.
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