We’re Not Safe Here

Gr 8 Up–A vividly imagined and unsettling world, where the dread creeps up with each page before coming to a chilling conclusion. No one ever leaves Wispy Falls. The woods mostly protect the town from the horrors that lurk beyond the forest’s edge. And when they don’t? The Facility protects people—or so they say. Even so, people still go missing, including Storymancer’s younger brother, Lee. He is determined to find him. But there are worse things than cryptids and monsters in Wispy Falls, and Storymancer will have to survive them all to get the answers he’s looking for. This epistolary novel unfolds through video transcripts, chat logs, and emails. What starts as a tale of a boy trying to uncover what happened to his brother morphs into something else altogether. The twists and turns of this tale are equally satisfying and disturbing. The heart-pounding conclusion will leave readers satisfied and horrified in equal measure, as Chupeco draws together all the threads of the story—all the red herrings, all the breadcrumbs, all the details that seemed insignificant at the time—culminating in an ending that will send readers back to the beginning just so they can appreciate all the clues Chupeco left them from the start.