Waiting on Wednesday- Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

This week I’m waiting on: Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

Expected Release Date: June 5th, 2018

 

From Goodreads:

Beatrice Hartley has no plans for the summer—except a secret reunion with her five former best friends.

Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, they were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim—their creative genius—changed everything.

One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft—the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world—in the hopes that she will get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim’s death. She suspects that her friends knew much more than they ever let on.

But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, answers seem unlikely. Her friends are all so different now, so splintered and lost. It’s too late. Beatrice senses she’s going to live the rest of her life far away from them, never knowing what really happened.

Then night fades to morning. A thunderstorm rages, and a mysterious man knocks on the door. He looks like the exhausted ringmaster of a cheap traveling circus. Blithely, he announces the impossible.

And so begins the Neverworld Wake. The nightmare. The nothingness.

I really loved Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film, and have been waiting to see what Pessl would write next. Neverworld Wake sounds deliciously dark and mysterious. It seems to mix in a bit of the campus novel feel of Special Topics and the mind-bending horror of Night Film. I’ll definitely be giving this YA novel a try at some point.

 

Are you looking forward to reading this too? What book(s) are you waiting on this week?