The Weight of the Soul

Name: The Weight of the Soul
Price: 15.99 USD
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ISBN: 9781951868536

✍️ Megan E Hart

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🏛 Howling Unicorn Press 📅 2025 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781951868536

📝 Description: The Weight of the Soul

How far would you go to save the ones you love? Marian Blake has always believed her daughter Briella was a miracle. Beautiful. Precious. And most of all, brilliant. Reading by age three. Conducting her own research and experiments not much longer after that. If Briella's a little different, well, isn't that to be expected? When Briella is accepted to Parkhaven, a school for exceptional students, she finally has a place where she can do more than fit in. With access to laboratories and teachers who encourage her experiments in recreating and saving copies of memories, the girl's brilliance can truly shine. Even her obsession with Onyx, the injured raven she rescued, might be fading. Why, then, is Marian increasingly afraid of what her daughter is capable of and what might Briella do... If someone doesn't stop her?

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At Horror Reads, we are always drawn to stories that weaponize the deepest ties of family. Megan E Hart’s *The Weight of the Soul* anchors its dread in the unsettling brilliance of young Briella, a prodigy whose neurological experiments at the exclusive Parkhaven school start crossing alarming boundaries. Rather than relying on jump scares, this novel cultivates a slow-burn, psychological atmosphere of creeping maternal paranoia, questioning how far a parent’s love should stretch when a child’s genius turns obsessive and cruel. It is a quiet, cerebral brand of horror that builds unease through ethical violation and the unnatural blurring of memories. This book suits readers who appreciate methodical, character-driven tension and unsettling domestic realism over traditional gore.

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Horror Reads editorial team

At Horror Reads, we are always drawn to stories that weaponize the deepest ties of family. Megan E Hart’s *The Weight of the Soul* anchors its dread in the unsettling brilliance of young Briella, a prodigy whose neurological experiments at the exclusive Parkhaven school start crossing alarming boundaries. Rather than relying on jump scares, this novel cultivates a slow-burn, psychological atmosphere of creeping maternal paranoia, questioning how far a parent’s love should stretch when a child’s genius turns obsessive and cruel. It is a quiet, cerebral brand of horror that builds unease through ethical violation and the unnatural blurring of memories. This book suits readers who appreciate methodical, character-driven tension and unsettling domestic realism over traditional gore.