A Drop of Night makes the things that go bumb in the night a bit more real
Book read and reviewed for BluJeans Books by Wanda Hartzenberg with help from Chat GTP.
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Stefan Bachmann brings you - A drop of night.
A Drop of Night by Stefan Bachmann takes you on a chilling journey beneath the streets of Paris, where a forgotten palace holds dark secrets that span centuries. Seventeen-year-old Anouk has been chosen out of hundreds of candidates to assist with an extraordinary excavation. Built in the 1780s to hide an aristocratic family from the chaos of the French Revolution, this underground palace has been undisturbed for over two hundred years. Or so she thought.
But nothing is as it seems, and soon Anouk and her fellow gifted teens are plunged into a far more sinister game than they could ever imagine. The speculative fiction elements leave you constantly second-guessing, as horrors unfold that are more than just skin-deep. There’s something truly unsettling about the evil that lurks in the palace’s depths.
Although the main characters are all young adults, the book doesn’t feel like your typical YA. The horror is intense—disturbing, even—and kept me on edge. Despite scratching my head at some of the speculative twists, I couldn’t stop reading, eager to see how it all unfolded. While some plot points were brushed over, I think explaining them would have diminished the eerie charm of the book (charm here being synonymous with the terror). For a reader who juggles multiple books at once, the fact that I couldn’t wait to return to this one is a huge compliment.
A Drop of Night is a gripping read that I’d recommend to anyone, especially those who think YA novels don’t have anything to offer adults. With its unsettling atmosphere and clever twists, it earns a solid four stars from me. This book will creep under your skin in the best possible way.