Briardark
Briardark and Waywarden Paperback Bundle: Signed, Wrapped, and Sealed
Briardark and Waywarden Paperback Bundle: Signed, Wrapped, and Sealed
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This paperback bundle of Briardark and Waywarden is signed by the author (both copies), wrapped beautifully in kraft paper, sealed with wax, and accompanied by a few Deadswitch Wilderness tourist shop souvenirs.
For Dr. Siena Dupont and her ambitious team, the Alpenglow glacier expedition is a career-defining opportunity. But thirty miles into the desolate Deadswitch Wilderness, they discover a missing hiker dangling from a tree, and their satellite phone fails to call out.
Then the body vanishes without a trace.
The disappearance isn’t the only chilling anomaly. Siena’s map no longer aligns with the trail. The glacier they were supposed to study has inexplicably melted. Strange foliage overruns the mountainside, and a tunnel within a tree hollow lures Siena to a hidden cabin, and a stranger with a sinister message…
Holden Sharpe’s IT job offers little distraction from his wasted potential until he stumbles upon a decommissioned hard drive and an old audio file. Trapped on a mountain, Dr. Siena Dupont recounts an expedition in chaos and the bloody death of a colleague.
Entranced by the mystery, Holden searches for answers to Siena’s fate. But he is unprepared for the truth that will draw him to the outskirts of Deadswitch Wilderness—a place teeming with unfathomable nightmares and impossibilities.
Customer Reviews
I'm absolutely amazed that this is the author's debut. It reads like it was written by someone who's been a well-known author for years. The whole book is tightly plotted and beautifully written, and the characters are all complicated and real. I was in love with all of them within a few pages, even Holden, who seems at first like the type of character I usually hate. Like all the others, though, he's way more interesting than he would have been in a lesser writer's hands, and I love his storyline so much. Siena and Cam and Emmet are all so much fun to ride along with, and the way the plot spirals from mildly unsettling to outright trippy and unnerving is so cool. I haven't read a book this fast in years, and I'm immediately moving on to the sequel. Definitely an author I'm going to keep an eye on.
Everything I enjoy in a book: weird unexplainable things happening, nature, good character development, scary scenes. I can’t wait to start the sequel.
This book is indescribably amazing. Grabs your and doesn't let go. Perfect characters perfect plot. The only bad thing was the way I SCREAMED when I read the last of it and it promised book two. So much profanity on my end. This is a riveting book I will read and reread. Love it
Briardark begins with a flashback (or is it?) to the disappearance of five hikers in a poorly-charted wilderness area somewhere in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Several years later, a science team from CalTech hikes into the same wilderness area on a climate study of a receding glacier.The weirdness builds gradually from here. Satellite phones that can't make calls, trails that appear and disappear overnight, plants that shouldn't be there... Atmospherically, this plays out like Annihilation, but without the constraint of being told through a journal.Scene cut. New character -- an IT professional at Oregon State University is tasked with purging data from a collection of hard-drives when he stumbles across an audio recording of an expedition to the depths of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The speaker mentions the death of a colleague, a colleague who, in the other narrative frame, is still very much alive...These three narrative threads dance around one another in such a way that the reader can't quite tell what happened when. And by the time you start to figure out how all these pieces fit together -- well, I'd rather not spoil it :)Quick checklist items:Queer characters? YesBechdel test? Very much yes.Content warnings? Death, psychosis
It’s so different than what I have been reading (horror is my fave genre). It was like a breath of fresh air to read this! Love love love! It’s definitely in my to fave books. I cannot wait for the next book to be released!!
