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New York Times bestselling author of darkly magical books

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Extasia

June 23, 2021 by

Extasia

Release Date: February 22, 2022

“The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Craft” in this lyrical, terrifying, and empowering must-read for fans of Victoria Schwab and Elana K. Arnold.

My name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today I become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark me and place the red hood on my head. They will give me my true name, and with my sisters I will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain—an evil which has already killed nine of our village’s men.

I will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow me. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls I saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today I become a saint of Haven. I will rid my family of my mother’s shame at last and save my people from destruction. I am not afraid.

Are you?

From New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes an emotionally searing and lyrically written novel that beckons readers to follow its powerful heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood—where the truth is buried in lies, and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it.

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Legrand’s lush and uniquely evocative prose keeps tensions high throughout Amity’s struggle with her magic, fury, and conscience.

School Library Journal

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village in Extasia, a sinister story of unchecked religious extremism in a post-apocalyptic world. This book gave me chills on every page. I could not put it down!

Carissa Mina
The Wandering Jellyfish (Niwot, CO)

A mixture of The Wilder Girls and The Grace Year, Extasia explodes off the page and grabs you by the throat. I couldn’t have stopped reading this book if I tried.

Katlin Kerrison
Story on the Square (McDonough, GA)

Witches, saints, romance, and gore collide in this story that is part horror, part thriller and wholly feminist. Extasia is a moonlit, genre-bending novel that is truly as spellbinding and beautiful as it is grotesque. Hand this to fans of The Handmaid’s Tale & The Grace Year.

Cristina Russell
Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL)

Extasia is power, and Claire Legrand is a legend. . . . I love the rage, the sorrow, the love despite it all. I loved everything about this book, and can’t wait for readers to recoil with wide eyes from the very first pages.

Caitlyn Vanorder
Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)

Claire Legrand’s latest feminist horror novel is even more frightening than Sawkill Girls and perfect for fans of The Grace Year, Wilder Girls, and The Wicked Deep.

Alyssa Raymond
Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA)

Legrand crafts a fiercely unsubtle feminist fantasy that takes on the patriarchy and the toxicity of hate.

Booklist

Legrand successfully brings a supernatural gruesomeness to her exploration of morality and agency.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

As the story closely examines indoctrination, belief-systems, and violence, there will be no settling answers within these pages, only a genre-defying dish of Palahniuk-esque disturbing content with a side of chilled blood. Mind. Blown.

Leah Atlee
Bright Side Bookshop (Flagstaff, AZ)

Full of creepy, gory horror and a well-developed scheme of magic, Extasia is a feminist thriller that lets the reader see what it could be like to become fully, finally, awake.

Aubrey Freely
Mostly Books (Tucson, AZ)

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Craft in this feminist standalone from Legrand (the Empirium trilogy), a fusion of horror and queer romantic fantasy that advocates unity, self-empowerment, and societal change.

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a 2023 Rainbow Book List selection

a Spring 2022 Kids’ Indie Next List pick

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Craft in this feminist standalone from Legrand (the Empirium trilogy), a fusion of horror and queer romantic fantasy that advocates unity, self-empowerment, and societal change. . . . readers will be riveted by Legrand’s fierce female characters and their harrowing emotional journey.

Publishers Weekly

Alongside the gory, insistent violence wrought by the town and the coven, Legrand’s lush and uniquely evocative prose keeps tensions high throughout Amity’s struggle with her magic, fury, and conscience. . . . Slow-burn horror meets a queer coming-of-age story, with compassionately explored themes of feminism, grief, trauma, faith, and abuse. A YA fantasy complement to Naomi Alderman’s The Power; fans of Legrand will find this an interesting new approach, as will readers of Rory Power and House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland.

School Library Journal

Legrand crafts a fiercely unsubtle feminist fantasy that takes on the patriarchy and the toxicity of hate. Amity’s evolving sense of self joins horror-driven action that . . . will keep readers invested.

Booklist

Legrand successfully brings a supernatural gruesomeness to her exploration of morality and agency.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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