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The Rust Maidens
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The Rust Maidens
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The Rust Maidens

Written by Gwendolyn Kiste

Narrated by Melanie Carey

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile at the shore, one strong spark, and the Cuyahoga River might catch fire. But none of that compares to what’s happening in their own west side neighborhood. The girls Phoebe and Jacqueline have grown up with are changing. It starts with footprints of dark water on the sidewalk. Then, one by one, the girls’ bodies wither away, their fingernails turning to broken glass, and their bones exposed like corroded metal beneath their flesh.As rumors spread about the grotesque transformations, soon everyone from nosy tourists to clinic doctors and government men start arriving on Denton Street, eager to catch sight of “the Rust Maidens” in metamorphosis. But even with all the onlookers, nobody can explain what’s happening or why—except perhaps the Rust Maidens themselves. Whispering in secret, they know more than they’re telling, and Phoebe realizes her former friends are quietly preparing for something that will tear their neighborhood apart.Alternating between past and present, Phoebe struggles to unravel the mystery of the Rust Maidens—and her own unwitting role in the transformations—before she loses everything she’s held dear: her home, her best friend, and even perhaps her own body.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2019
ISBN9781987139518
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The Rust Maidens
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Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including LitHub, Nightmare Magazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vastarien, Tor’s Nightfire, The Lineup, and The Dark. She’s a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror Award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at GwendolynKiste.com.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    What a strange and beautifully written book! I was so immersed in the world that Gwendolyn Kiste created.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow this was so much more than I expected. Actually I had no idea what to expect but Daniele Siera totally captured the feeling of the book in the cover

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Sorry, but I can't finish this. Long and drawn out, not very suspenseful but when the few peaks of suspense started, I was excited to see where it would go, unfortunately it didnt go far. I have 4 more hours to go and had to ask myself why. That was not a good sign. I have to cut my losses here and move on before I consider washing windows for more excitement. BORING! BORING! BORING!