Hazelthorn

De: CG Drews

Narrado por: Michael Crouch

CG Drews, instant New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Annihilation, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow:

He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie.

That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him.

When Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. But Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next.

Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.

"Genuinely creepy … Lush, angsty, queer horror."—Kirkus Reviews

©2025 CG Drews (P)2025 Recorded Books

Couldn't finish.

Recommended by several TikTok and Pinterest book reviewers. I got through half of it. Not my thing.

More of the same

I read Don’t Let The Forest In before I read this one. Loved the first book. This one was more of the same but not as good. The story line was kind of similar and the leads were very annoying.

just beautiful

got lost in the imagery but it hooked me right back in, didn’t see it coming but also just had a feeling, it was just written so nice and told so well

I couldn’t have predicted that.

The story went a completely different way than I expected. I was thrown off that the last several chapters repeated at the end. Love the narrator.

new favorite

beautiful writing, fantastic fulfilling story, I'm going to scream now. I need to scream now. I'm going to build a shrine to this book, I think.