Mackenzie is plagued by dreams of a severed crow’s heads and battles against masses of birds. She returns over and over to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s death. Now when awake, Mackenzie is being followed by a murder of crows that follow her all over the city. Her dreams also start to get far too real when she wakes up throwing up water. Once she starts getting threatening text messages from someone who swears they are her deceased sister, Mackenzie packs in up and returns back to her hometown in Alberta to be with her family. Her family is still drowning in the grief Mackenzie once fled from, and her dreams are now even more dangerous. There’s a big chance that the evil Mackenzie is running from is already taking control of her.
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns is part-thriller, part-horror. It explores themes of colonization and a sense of ancestral grief. This book isn’t your typical type of horror novel. As another reader mentioned, the book is unapologetically Native. It moves as a slow burn, with one heck of an ending.
Bad Cree is now available from Doubleday.
