The Noise

by James Patterson

First published 2021

Sixteen-year-old Tennant checks rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie in the forests below Mount Hood. A strange vibration emerges from the trees, growing stronger until it becomes a deafening wall of screams. Their father appears without warning and forces them through a trapdoor into an underground storm cellar. The terrifying sound grows louder. The girls must survive whatever disaster has struck the Pacific Northwest. Tennant faces the responsibility of protecting Sophie while their world collapses around them. This thriller explores how family bonds endure when everything familiar disappears.

Genres: adventure, thriller, action, apocalyptic

Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: found-family, responsibility

Setting: Mount Hood, Pacific Northwest

Period: 21st-century

432 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company

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