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    Sacrificial Animals: A Novel
    Sacrificial Animals: A Novel
    Sacrificial Animals: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Sacrificial Animals: A Novel

    Written by Kailee Pedersen

    Narrated by Yung-I Chang

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.

    The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.

    But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations.

    Punctuated by scenes from Nick’s adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever, Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake.

    A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

    Editor's Note

    Queer horror…

    A queer slow-burn horror thriller like no other, “Sacrificial Animals” expertly blends Chinese mythology with the stark realities of life in middle America, to haunting effect. Drawing on her background as a Chinese adoptee raised on a Nebraska farm, Pedersen infuses her debut novel with authenticity and depth, crafting a chilling narrative in which a sense of unease mounts to a nearly unbearable degree.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2024
    ISBN9781250349880
    Sacrificial Animals: A Novel
    Author

    Kailee Pedersen

    Kailee Pedersen writes haunted, unsettling speculative fiction. She graduated with a B.A. in Classics from Columbia University, specializing in ancient Greek. Kailee was adopted from Nanning in 1996 and grew up in Nebraska, where her family owns a farm. Her writing on LGBTQ+ and Asian American themes was awarded an Artist Fellowship by the Nebraska Arts Council in 2015. When not scribbling down her next book, you can catch her singing opera, playing video games, or working as a software engineer in New York City. Sacrificial Animals is her first novel.

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    • 3/5
      This is a difficult review to write because it's one of those times when it's probably not the book, it's me. I was very intrigued by the premise of the book, but somehow it never really grabbed me. It might've been my mood, quite possibly had I read it at another time I'd have been pulled in. But while I enjoyed the writing, and I've never been one that needs to like the characters in books as I read them, I found it especially easy to actively dislike all of these characters. It was hard to find someone to "root for", and therefore I didn't much care what happened to any of them. And since this is a slow-burn of a horror story, it just felt like it took way to long for the horror part to get going (not that there wasn't a fair bit of horror in the flashbacks to hunting scenes and abusive father scenes). In the end I can see how this would appeal to many readers, but it just wasn't for me. On the other hand, I did enjoy Kailee Pedersen's writing style (if not the subject matter) and hope she'll continue writing, I'd definitely be willing to give her future books a try.
      I had both the Kindle edition and the audiobook, and found myself mostly listening to this one. The narration by Yung-I Chang was nicely done.
      Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin's Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing copies for an unbiased review.