String Follow

A Novel

By: Simon Jacobs

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, James Patrick Cronin

Simon Jacobs's String Follow is a darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs.

Something strange is happening to the teens in Adena, Ohio.

A mysterious force is seeking inroads: vulnerabilities to exploit, friendships to hijack, untapped rage to harness toward its own ends. Who will serve it best? Claire is abrasive and aimless, embarrassed by her privileged upbringing. Weak-willed David is consumed by a recent breakup and harbors fantasies of violent, cultish orgies. Greg silently wages war against the voices in his head, while his sister, Beth, goes quietly mad, surrounded by lights. And at the center is the empathetic, naïve, sensitive Sarah. The force wants her most of all. The question is whether she will be the key to its success or to its destruction.

Eerie, hypnotic, and shot through with dark comedy, String Follow is a razor-sharp suburban Gothic that cuts deep, exposing the sweating, bleeding truth of how kids become adults in 21st-century America. In spellbinding, incisive prose, Simon Jacobs blends the startlingly original and the uncannily familiar, revealing the dark chaos that lurks under the surface of Midwestern suburbia.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals.

©2022 Simon Jacobs (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Nostalgia horror!

I love this one so much! It has such nostalgic feels because it brings creepy supernatural elements into the baseline horrors of being a teenager. This is a unique read exploring sinister elements influence and the forms it may take. I’m struggling to do this one justice with a description! Excellent narration! Let’s put it this way, it took me a long time to finish this book because every time I came closer to the end I put it down for months because I didn’t want it to be over! Highly recommend!