The Violence: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Every summer needs a superb thriller, and this is it…A wonderful narrative about liberation and perseverance.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A smart, fast-paced thrill ride.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• A gorgeously creative and surprisingly gleeful story about the way violence infects every aspect of American life.

  — Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors

• A stellar thriller full of danger, courage, and characters who feel alive.

  — Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and Ararat

• Dawson’s thriller is a surprising, exhilarating journey of three generations of women navigating a changing world.

  — The Washington Post

• Every summer needs a superb thriller, and this is it. A story of three generations of women making their way through an America ravaged by violence, this is also a wonderful narrative about liberation and perseverance.

  — The Boston Globe

• Dawson’s prose is a kind of knife work: short, sharp stabs after agonies of teeth-clenching tension. . . . Dizzyingly effective . . . It’s impossible not to read.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• [A] smart, fast-paced thrill ride.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• The Violence is a novel that will stand out for its intelligence, for its compassion, for its ‘un-put-down-able-ness.’ . . . It is the kind of novel that will stand the test of time.

  — SFF World

• A propulsive redemption story.

  — Library Journal

• A paean to the resilience of women . . . The Violence could not be more of-the-moment.

  — Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Deep

• A piercing examination of survival, courage, and self, terrifying and hopeful in equal measure.

  — Peng Shepherd, award-winning author of The Book of M

• The Violence is Dawson at her best: unflinching yet empathetic, the brutal and the gentle side by side, rage and despair tempered with joy and hope.

  — Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of the Ink & Sigil series

• A compulsively readable fusion of domestic thriller and modern horror that shocks and surprises at every turn. A must-read!

  — Kameron Hurley, author of The Light Brigade

• A staggering, masterful tale of survival and redemption during a literal epidemic of violence. Dawson is a storyteller working at the top of her class.

  — Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

• Visceral, thrilling . . . A novel paced like a fistfight, aching like a just-gone tooth—but there’s hope in the harrowing.

  — Max Gladstone, Hugo and Nebula award–winning author

• The Violence isn’t just a timely, ripping thriller—it’s an intimate, thoughtful, heart-wrenching portrait of abuse and power, and how those things ripple through generations.

  — Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse