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Voice Like a Hyacinth

A Novel

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Voice Like a Hyacinth

By: Mallory Pearson
Narrated by: Kira Fixx
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Five young women eager for success rely on the unspeakable to make their dreams come true in a chilling novel about martyrdom, ritual, and obsession by the author of We Ate the Dark.

Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another’s muses—so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they’ll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if it means naively resorting to the occult to unlock their creativity and to curse their esteemed, if notoriously creepy, professor. They soon learn the horrible price to be paid for such a transgressive ritual.

In its violent aftermath, things are changing. Jo is feeling unnervingly haunted by something inexplicable. Their paintings, once prodigious and full of life, are growing dark and unhealthy. And their journey together—as women, students, and artists—is starting to crumble.

To right the wrong they’ve done, these five desperate friends will take their obsession a step too far. When that happens, there may be no turning back.

©2025 by Mallory Pearson. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Supernatural Thriller & Suspense

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“In this lush and propulsive gothic outing, Pearson (We Ate the Dark) takes the dark academia aesthetic to art school…Vivid descriptions, believable emotional stakes, and deeply creepy horror elements keep the pages flying as Pearson probes the experience of queer womanhood and the toll of ambition. This stuns.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Pearson’s lush prose enlivens this creepy tale of friendship, art, and ambition.”Booklist

Voice Like a Hyacinth blends the seductive decadence of Saltburn with the fierce, feral femininity of Yellowjackets to conjure a spine-tingling story of ambition and obsession that deserves to be an instant dark academia classic. You’ll be desperate to join Mallory Pearson’s indelible art school girl gang—and to read whatever her dark imagination conjures up next.”—Layne Fargo, author of The Favorites and They Never Learn

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Absolutely loving the journey in this book. It’s got just the right twist on what it’s like to have friends, love, competition with no true malice and growing into women hood and all the complications that come with that. With just a touch of dark and ominous. The narrator is incredible and honestly fits the vibe of the main character so well. She doing an amazing job and I’m extremely picking on what narrators I like. This book touches truly on what it’s like to go through the pressures of what life puts on you and what you’re willing to sacrifice to get it. I love how all the characters grow but stay true to their character. The book Deffo gives bell jar vibes with the perfection of writing on inner monologue and first person pov. Not easy to do and the author is nailing it. Haven’t been bored once. Absolutely love this book. Now need a special edition to put on the shelves.

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