Voice Like a Hyacinth
A Novel
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Voice Like a Hyacinth
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Narrated by:
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Kira Fixx
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By:
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Mallory Pearson
About this listen
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.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“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)
“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
“Mallory Pearson’s Voice Like a Hyacinth is lush chaos. Whatever your experience with codependent, homoerotic friendships, Pearson’s feral quintet is on another level. ‘I want to go home, but maybe home was years ago,’ her narrator, Jo, thinks after reaping what they’ve sowed. If going home means putting down Pearson’s novel and returning to my life, I’m not going without a fight.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of All-Night Pharmacy