Nestlings

De: Nat Cassidy

Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Nat Cassidy

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

“This is the horror book of the year.”—Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse

Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2023—Paste Magazine

Ana and Reid needed a lucky break.

The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery.

They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning architecture.

Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York—people are odd—but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby.

Other Books by Nat Cassidy:

Mary: An Awakening of Terror

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

©2023 Nat Cassidy (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Cassandra Campbell's careful pacing and deliberate articulation complement this horror audiobook.... Utilizing a variety of accents, she perfectly renders a large cast of humans and monsters, including a mysterious and glamorous movie star. Nat Cassidy narrates his author's note at the end with remarkable optimism, considering the distressing series of events that inspired the story." (AudioFile)

“A truly creepy story of urban and bodily unease. Nat Cassidy has created a terrifyingly claustrophobic world, and his clean, beautiful prose manages to make the horrific events he describes here feel dismayingly plausible. You’ll certainly never look at a gargoyle the same way again.”—Scott B. Smith, Bestselling author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan

“Nestlings cleverly pays homage to classic horror while also filling its Manhattan highrise with post-2020 frights and concerns. Nat Cassidy has written a creepy page-turner where the scariest things of all are what reside in the human (or inhuman) heart.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

“Nestlings builds on the success of Nat Cassidy's first novel, the strong Mary: An Awakening of Terror. An impressive accomplishment in its own right, Nestlings shows Cassidy expanding his range as a writer with skill and confidence, with this gripping twenty-first century take on some old terrors.”—John Langan, author of The Fisherman

Another great book from Nat Cassidy!

I loved Mary so was thrilled to see another book available so soon. This one is very different to Mary but still has the same complexity of characters, dry humor, and creepy AF sense of place. Get the book!

Great Horror Story

Narration was great and I really enjoyed the story! Very interesting and kept me curious. Creepy at times! I could easily imagine and visualize it like a movie.

The narrator was excellent! I didn’t listen to the whole sample & bought it.

Nothing! Great new take on the vampire legends. I how the author brought it all together. I could tell he related to each. Epic story!

Good not great

I liked this book. I basically ate it for breakfast on audible. Good character development and subtle creepiness around every corner. It got kinda off balance near the end. Anyway I still recommend it. Just keep an open mind at the end.

Gave me Rosemary's baby vibes!!!!!

The minute she had a weird feeling, I was hooked. I really love stories where the building is a main character! Felt like I was very aware of how it was going, then bam! It would take a turn. There were a few parts that I was absolutely disgusted, in the best way! Honestly shocked at the end, and I think that was just the cherry on top! Highly recommend!

Nice story

The over all story was nice didnt expect a vampire plot nót the biggest fan of vampire stories but this is new and works the voice over when she was talking for the mom sounded sometimes like it was leaning towards bratty teen instead of exhausted mom but other than that it was great

Nat Cassidy does it again!

Scary, creepy, skin-crawling and also heartbreakingly beautiful and inspiring. The epilogue alone is worth a listen. Love him!!!

Excellent story and so well told!

I read Mary a month or so ago and instantly pre-ordered this book when I read it’s description because I loved Nat Cassidy so much from just that one exposure to him. Now, after reading two books from him I would gladly put him up with Stephen King in his writing style, though I don’t think he has quite the complexity to him that Stephen King has had after a gigantic career of writing.
Nat Cassidy writes REAL PEOPLE. He does his research and he brings to life real people in all of their complexities, pleasant and otherwise and then he puts them into interesting stories.

Story- I might not have liked the characters, but that’s because I would not have liked them if I met them I person. They were very well written and completely relatable. He AGAIN killed it in writing a female character not just from a female perspective, but also in a way that even women have a hard time pinpointing, but when you read it (as a woman)…it’s like “Yes! That! That’s exactly how we’re treated!” I was constantly left wondering what was going to happen and where the story was going to go. Every time I thought I had a grasp of what was going on something new was added and I’d be like “Oh…interesting”.
The end of the story was very original and did not take the same format most books take, it was very refreshing.
I didn’t think his epilogue for this story was as interesting as it had been for Mary, which made me a little sad because I REALLY wanted to know how he came up with some of the concepts in the book, but I still really like his epilogues.

Narrator- she did great. I don’t think she really stood out very much… or necessarily added to the story, but she told it adequately and didn’t detract from it.

Big idea horror that stays scary and taut

Like his first book, Mary- that I also really enjoyed- Nestlings feels like it started out as a much bigger book, abundant with ideas and themes, and then got tightened to this book- where there are all these layers, but never at the expense of keeping things moving, and keeping the focus on a scary story. Not a short book, but feels lean. And goes fast.

I don't want to say too much because part of the joy of this book is the way that whenever you think you know what kind of horror story you are in, or even what the 'monster' is, you might not actually know it yet. There are surprises ahead, twists and really smart takes on some familiar monsters and lore, as well as fresh ideas, and, again, none of it is at the expense of a story that feels like it moves forward fast, often at the speed of survival.

The book acknowledges and celebrates its influences- as you might have seen in the description, the log line is basically 'Rosemary's Baby meets Salem's Lot' (though it is more than just that combination).

What I love about this book is not only the ways that it escalates the horror of its influences. As a parent, I can say that it feels higher stakes and more vulnerable to have a nearly 1 year old baby under threat than around a pregnancy; and the longtime New Yorker in me loved the concept of a residential building as its own small town, as well as the family's move from the outer boroughs to this building via a housing lottery as an idea in the tradition of most horror having its roots in economic anxiety. In the same way Jack Torrance moving his family into a clearly haunted hotel is the thing you do when there are no other prospects. I also loved the way that the main characters were flawed and messy. Not perfect people. Not always making the right choices. But they rang true. And always feel like they were handled with empathy.

Okay, this review is too long. Look, it's an excellent book, and wonderfully narrated by Cassandra Campbell. I hope there is a new Nat Cassidy book next year. Let's keep up this new book every year pace. I'm on board.

-David D. (my wife and I share this old account, which I think still has her name on it. If she wrote a review it would have been more concise. She's like that.)

Great story!

I loved this book start to finish! I looked forward to running errands, just so I could continue the story!