Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dear Hanna in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio
Published: August 13, 2024
Summary:
Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up.
Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy—and writing letters to her younger brother—has since curbed those nasty tendencies.
Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people.
But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart. With life slipping out of her control, Hanna reverts to old habits, determined to manipulate the events and people around her. And the only thing worse than a baby sociopath is a fully grown one.
With its dark humor and chillingly seductive protagonist, Dear Hanna is a stand-alone sequel sure to thrill returning and new readers alike.
My thoughts:
She’s back!!! My favorite sociopath ever is back and I could not be more excited!!! We now see Hanna as an adult and let me just say, while she is functioning in society, her mind is just as scary and devious, always plotting while not necessarily carrying through on those evil tendencies. We really see her try to keep her inner demon at bay for the most part…until too many changes start to happen that she has no control over. Then we begin to see the old Hanna reappear, the one from her childhood, and all bets are off as to what happens next! The twists and turns this one took kept me guessing all the way through!!!
I love that while this book is a sequel of sorts to Baby Teeth, it absolutely can be read as a stand-alone. But trust me…you want to read both! They are both 5 star reads for me…and I hope this isn’t the last we’ve seen of Hanna!
Audio thoughts:
This was such an addicting audiobook – with the narrator, Helen Laser, doing an amazing job keeping me engaged the entire time. She was able to add just the right edge to her voice for Hanna’s part to make this equal parts creepy and sane when needed. It was such a great audiobook and one I totally flew through in one day!
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