The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett

The last Kim Liggett book I reviewed here (Blood and Salt) was creepy and weird and crazy.  This one tops it.

The cover tagline is "eerie and unnerving and tense".  Yep, I'd agree with that.

Devil worship, high school football, and history converge in Smalltown USA.

127 years ago six families founded Midland.  The sixth generation of the founding families are now high school seniors.  Only the Tate family has more than one child: Clay, Jess, and Natalie (who goes by the nickname Noodle).  One year ago their father went off his rocker and slaughtered every female cow on a neighboring ranch.  Clay found his father muttering about the devil and blood.

Clay lost everything that night.  Without his father to cut the wheat, the responsibility falls to Clay.  He quits football and dumps his girlfriend.  While their mother spirals into depression, Jess goes goth and becomes the town whore.  Only Noodle seems immune, excelling at school and keeping the family together by a thread.  Clay decides to get Noodle out of their podunk little farm town and starts saving for her to attend private school 45 minutes away.

But now, a year later, weird things start happening around Clay.  He has visions of baby cows being slaughtered and then kids start dying under suspicious circumstances.  A school counselor, a devout Catholic in a town of Baptists, thinks there might be a cult in Midland.  As things get stranger and stranger, Clay isn't sure whether he's the chosen one to lead the cult or defeat it.

Not going to lie, this book was weird and creepy.  I did figure out what was really happening (and who is on what side) pretty early though.

Also, I have no idea how I got this book.  It kinda just appeared on my ottoman.  And that's kinda weird too.  It's being added to the LMC collection right now.

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