May the Dead Keep You 😱

This Book will be released soon.

April 23rd 2026 , get book because of the cover, pair it with audio. I'm sure it will make it more immersive.

Publisher: Little Brown

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I read an advanced digital copy with #netgalley and the publisher.

My review:

So awesome. 5+ A girl who loves isolation in her family house in the woods goes through a terrible journey and coming of age process of discovering terrible things within the people she trusts most. Very feminist, but perfect for this story.

This is an amazing YA and I would put it on the same shelf as my copies of Stephen King, and Shirley Jackson. The mother, the obsessive almost unlogical red flag relationship with a boyfriend, the older brother, the abandonment of the father, the mistakes of the adults, the neighbour's, the house watching, influencing... omg I binged it because although sometimes it was a bit slow and repetitive at the start once the major death occurs it's a roller coaster of emotions. I liked the end a lot, sad, and relatable.

What the publisher says:

Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights, this gothic horror novel is about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves. 

There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights. 

She prefers being alone in the forest. People are ... complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands ... he captures her heart.

Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing happening in the Heights.There’s an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her—including her once-sweet nature boy—are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent.

As the Heights’s dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn’t her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same—unless she can stop it.

A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat read—equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.