Strange Is the Light - by Sarah Maria Griffin (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Once they were inseparable--Daphne, Leonie, Ronan and Finn, a beloved summer foursome, the wild Wonders.

But they haven't been together since the horrible winter when Daphne was 23; the one that began with a funeral and ended with a fraught bargain with an ancient power.

THEN:
Leonie's boyfriend--the gang's childhood nemesis, Arturo--invites them to play a tabletop RPG based on Wonder/Wonder, their favorite childhood arcade game.

But there is a dark, uncanny force behind the game, feeding on all the worst memories and secrets of the players and turning it into a world of nightmares...and they face being trapped forever in the interstellar alternate dimension, until one of them makes a terrible bargain...

NOW:
Having fled their last game--Daphne knows that her time in this world is limited. Before she can bring danger to Galway and risk the lives of her wife and unborn child, she must return to the galactic dimension of the Scorpio Wonder to take her turn. It's only slightly less terrifying than confronting the bittersweet memories and once-beloved faces of their fractured, dramatic, entangled group...and the player they'd left behind at the last round.

Review Quotes

Praise for Eat The Ones You Love
"Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked." --V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

"A beautiful dark gem of a book." --Zoraida Córdova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

"Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise." --Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil

"Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece--inventive, intimate, and scalpel-sharp." --Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls

"I devoured this book in a matter of days, but it will be snaking through my mind for a long time to come." --Adrienne Celt, author of End of the World House

"Eat the Ones You Love is a story that has everything: monsters, malls, and minimum wage. Griffin is a genius of suburban gothic, and like Baby, I'm always hungry for more." --Caroline O'Donoghue, bestselling author of The Rachel Incident

"Lush, eerie, and sensual...a stunner." --Publishers Weekly, starred review