DEAR HANNA
Zoje Stage
Do you remember Hanna? She’s back and in fine form in Zoje Stage’s follow-up to her wildly successful novel BABY TEETH.
Hanna is casually manipulative, casually psycho, and casually looking for a replacement family. We meet up with her when she has a meet-cute with him. He has no idea what he is in for, who he is up against, or that he is up against anything.
He thinks he’s met his replacement wife and really he met his nightmares in five feet of phlebotomist, going by the name Hanna.
She loves being a phlebotomist because it allows her to act out a fantasy she’s had since childhood. Soon he and Hanna marry and Hanna moves in with him and his daughter.
One day the daughter comes with unsettling news that ignites a far more nefarious version of Hanna than we’ve ever seen before. It’s twisty and twisted and I couldn’t get enough.
DEAR HANNA is told through letters sent back and forth between Hanna and her brother Goose who still lives at home with their notorious mother and absent father. The letters were exceptionally insightful and I loved getting to know Hanna and the other characters better this way
Hanna is still a fun character to visit. I did not enjoy the last few of Stage’s novels, but it seems Hanna is my winning ticket. There was a material aspect to the book that I did not enjoy. Hence, the four stars instead of five. It’s a spoiler so unless like me you read DEAR HANNA we’ll never be able to discuss it.
So what are you waiting for?
Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the advanced copy! It was a pleasure!
DEAR HANNA…⭐⭐⭐⭐
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