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The Cove

by Claire Rose

Isolation, rebellion, and sea-soaked folk horror

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Isolation, rebellion, and sea-soaked folk horror

Seventeen-year-old Lindsay’s latest expulsion sends her to a remote farm in Marbury, Maine, where a strict reform program keeps a group of teens cut off from phones and the outside world. An excursion to a nearby island offers a brief escape, but the teens return with seashell mementos and gaps in their memories. The ensuing disappearances turn their isolation into a struggle to understand what has happened and survive. The premise brings together a teen’s search for self-determination, a constrained rural setting, and the unsettling pull of coastal folklore.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult readers interested in horror centered on teenagers.
  • Readers who enjoy isolated settings, mysterious disappearances, and folk-horror premises.
  • Readers drawn to stories about rebellion and self-discovery alongside supernatural danger.

Themes

Isolation and controlSelf-determinationMemory and mysteryCoastal folk horror

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Book overview

Midsommar meets Fear Street in this modern, sea-soaked folk horror debut about fighting to survive, and fighting to be yourself.

Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Weinberg has just gotten kicked out of another prep school, and has consequently found herself shipped to her Uncle Levi's farm in the cold, isolated town of Marbury, Maine.

When Lindsay arrives at a big, old farmhouse miles from civilization, she is greeted by her uncle's new wife, a goy with a little too much Jesus decor for Lindsay's taste--with Uncle Levi mysteriously away on a business trip. Not only that, but Lindsay isn't the only teen staying there. In fact, there is a small group of teens going through some kind of reform program. Up at dawn. Manual labor all day. No phones, computers or tablets.

Things start to feel hopeless until Lindsay meets the twins, Phin and Cass. They live on an island off the Peninsula's coast--and they have internet. Lindsay convinces the others at Haven House to sneak out for a party on the island, and the night is incredible. At least...what they can remember of it. All of them wake up in their beds with sea-shell mementos, no memory of how they got home, and wicked hangovers. All of them except one. And as the disappearances and mysteries pile up, Lindsay and the others realize that they have become involved in a terrifying fight to survive, before the Cove claims them all.

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