Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up.

Baby Teeth is one of my favorite horror novels and I was so excited to get back into that world. Dear Hanna was great, though it didn't quite live up to the hype I had built up in my head. Still loved it, though.

Omg Hanna is back and in full force!!!

This will be one of my favorites for 2024 and I loved Baby Teeth! Zoje Stage is brilliant and I hope this series continues!

I will read anything this author writes! The story is full of twists and turns and it just makes you wanna keep reading!

Well written !

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read and review

It's this intensely gripping follow-up to Baby Teeth and seriously dives into Hanna’s twisted mind as an adult. It's like nothing you've read before—creepy, captivating, and totally chilling!

A fantastic follow up to Baby Teeth!

I was so excited when I heard Zoje was writing a sequel to Baby Teeth. It was one of my favorite reads from a few years ago.

Getting to know adult Hanna was so much fun and eerie after the events of the first book. I was on edge the whole time, just waiting for the ball to drop and for shit to hit the fan. And oh boy does it ever hit the fan.

Full of twists and turns and a shocking ending. I really enjoyed this.

Zoje Stage sets a very creepy and chilling stage in which Hanna is the star! This book is a creepy and unsettling psychological thriller that will have readers questioning what is going to happen next! Dear Hanna is a sequel to Baby Teeth but can be read as a stand-alone.

Hanna is back and this time she is an adult navigating the world of work, marriage, and being a stepparent. She also regularly sends letters to her younger brother. On the outside, she appears to have it all, but her tendencies are still there, lurking under the surface, waiting to see the light of day! Hanna continues to have 'issues' but strives to be seen as having a handle on everything. She works as a phlebotomist, a job that she enjoys and is quite proud of. She takes pride in her job but occasionally misses a vein and *oops* causes pain to others.

Zoje Stage does a great job with the psychological aspects of this book. Hanna has dark thoughts, impulses, and tendencies. Hanna is also adept at pulling the wool over the eyes of her husband and those in her life.

This was an enjoyable and well thought out look into Hanna's life as a young woman trying to adapt and fit in. There were a nice number of twists and reveals along the way. I did see one twist/reveal coming but overall enjoyed how the author brought everything full circle in the end.

Well written, well thought out, and unsettling.

3.5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a digital galley in exchange for my honest review.

I did not know this was a sequel until I was already deep in it. Luckily, I believe it can be read as a standalone or in reverse order.

I was immediately so absorbed and enthralled with Hanna. This is an excellent character study of a person with a moral compass that doesn’t exactly point north. She sucked me in.

While not heavy with plot, I was never bored.

My next move is to read Baby Teeth for Hanna’s backstory. And I would be more than happy to read about where Hanna goes from here, in something like a sequel to the sequel. I could keep reading these bite sized pockets of her life well into her old age.

This is a solid follow up to one of my favorite books, Baby Teeth. We get to see Hanna in the future making her way through life as an adult. She seems to be doing remarkable well, regularly communicating with her brother, holding down a steady job and taking care of her little family. It's all well and good until the demons that haunted her as a child start to resurface.

I love a good evil child thriller and this is the long awaited sequel to just one of my favorite such stories

Publishes August 13, so don't miss it!

Thank you Zoje Stage, Thomas and Mercer and NetGalley for giving me the chance to read and review this as an ARC.

Wow! What an intense and gripping book! Sequels are sometimes a bit flat but not this one! Suspenseful and twisty, I thoroughly enjoyed it! You won’t be able to put this down once you start!

Boy oh boy! Zoje Stage hits the bullseye in this dark and creepy thriller! The characters were fantastic and kept me reading long into the night. Stage has a way to get under my skin. She delivers big time. Deliciously dark and gripping.
Thank you NetGalley and Zoje Stage for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This was an interesting book, that might be appropriate for older students who are more psychological aware. It was an easy read and also one that could be read without having read the first book, which I hadn't. Unique storyline and wasn't sure where it was going at some points

Thanks to NetGalley for my ARC

4.5 ⭐️
I had a wonderful time checking in with Hanna as an adult. I had to know how such a sociopathic little girl would possibly grow up and build a life for herself. I was not disappointed. The author gave us plenty of messed up/twisted/juicy new events to sink our teeth into. The story was told largely through letters, so it went by very quickly. I couldn't put it down.

That being said, I had a couple of issues that kept it from being "perfect" for me. Mainly the ending fell a bit flat. I wanted more detail in the last few chapters.

The author's note explained that this can be read as a sequel to Baby Teeth or a stand alone novel. After the way she ended things, I would love to read a third one!

DEAR HANNA
Zoje Stage

Do you remember Hanna? She's back and in fine form in Zoje Stage's follow-up to her wildly successful novel BABY TEETH.

Hanna is casually manipulative, casually psycho, and casually looking for a replacement family. We meet up with her when she has a meet-cute with him. He has no idea what he is in for, who he is up against, or that he is up against anything.

He thinks he's met his replacement wife and really he met his nightmares in five feet of phlebotomist, going by the name Hanna.

She loves being a phlebotomist because it allows her to act out a fantasy she’s had since childhood. Soon he and Hanna marry and Hanna moves in with him and his daughter.

One day the daughter comes with unsettling news that ignites a far more nefarious version of Hanna than we’ve ever seen before. It’s twisty and twisted and I couldn't get enough.


DEAR HANNA is told through letters sent back and forth between Hanna and her brother Goose who still lives at home with their notorious mother and absent father. The letters were exceptionally insightful and I loved getting to know Hanna and the other characters better this way

Hanna is still a fun character to visit. I did not enjoy the last few of Stage’s novels, but it seems Hanna is my winning ticket. There was a material aspect to the book that I did not enjoy. Hence, the four stars instead of five. It's a spoiler so unless like me you read DEAR HANNA we'll never be able to discuss it.

So what are you waiting for?

Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the advanced copy! It was a pleasure!

DEAR HANNA...⭐⭐⭐⭐

4.5 stars!

If you were a fan of Baby Teeth, you'll want to pick up Dear Hanna! I devoured this book. Though it can be read as a standalone, it is the sequel to Baby Teeth and follows Hanna as an adult. She is a textbook sociopath, but the way Zoje Stage allows readers to enter Hanna's inner dialogue makes her almost relatable. There are a lot of outlandish events in this book, yet they are entirely plausible as plot devices. This was a wild ride that you won't regret going on!

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Hanna is back, and better than ever! After reading "Baby Teeth" a few years ago, I found myself enthralled by Hanna and her.....how should we say it.....antics. Now Hanna is newly married to a handsome and successful man, working as a phlebotomist, and stepmother to a teenage daughter, Joelle. All is well in her world, and her urges are *mostly* contained. (And she of course has the needle at her disposal when she is feeling a little grumpy). Life is moving along swimmingly, with Hanna communicating through handwritten letters with her younger brother, with whom she remains close.

Until....Joelle becomes pregnant. Hanna tries her best to deal with this turn of events, but she just can't seem to get over it. As Joelle's pregnancy advances, Hanna is filled with angst. She begins to brainstorm ways to ensure that Joelle does NOT bring home a baby in nine months. Is it her fear of harming the child that is causing her angst? Or perhaps jealousy? All Hanna knows is that Joelle simply cannot have this baby.....and she will do everything in her power to make sure that it doesn't happen.

Hanna is just a villain that you love to hate. Or maybe even hate to love?? With her many flaws (and boy, does she have some!), part of me just couldn't help rooting for her in some twisted way. There was one twist that I did find largely predictable, but the ending was unique and not to be missed. Start with Stage's first book, "Baby Teeth", if you have not already done so, and then move on to this one. A quick and easy read that you won't be disappointed with!

YIKES BIKES!!! Its Zoje Stage!!!!

If Stage wrote a phonebook, I would read it. The depths of my love for this author are immeasurable and this book right here is everything my little heart could have desired and so much more.

In true Stage, fashion, you'll never figure out this twisted tale and when it smacks you right up in the face, you'll never know what hit you.

If you know anything about Stage, books you know not to spoil it for the next reader. So, I will leave you with this. Read Dear Hanna, it will change the way you feel about the thriller genre and sets a whole new bar for authors to follow.

Check out this teaser :

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up.

Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy―and writing letters to her younger brother―has since curbed those nasty tendencies.

Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist―a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people.

But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart. With life slipping out of her control, Hanna reverts to old habits, determined to manipulate the events and people around her. And the only thing worse than a baby sociopath is a fully grown one.

Hanna is now an adult living the suburban mom life, nice house, husband and teenage daughter.

When Joelle gets pregnant, Hanna has a hard time controlling her dark thoughts.

I really enjoyed reading about what Hanna was doing now as an adult, Baby Teeth was one of the first books I read on my kindle. While technically this book is a sequel to Baby Teeth, I feel you could read it first.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the e-arc.

I LOVE ZOJE STAGE! Dear Hannah follows the life of Hannah After the first book Baby Teeth. I Loved Baby Teeth and this book did not disappoint! I am completely obsessed!

Welp, Hanna is still Hanna! This was dark and disturbing, not as creepy as Baby Teeth, but just as chilling. If Zoje Stage writes something, you can bet I am reading it.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

Baby Teeth is one of my favorite books of pretty much ever, and when Desr Hanna was announced I screamed from excitement and boy did it live up to its predecessor! I was not really sure how much time would have progressed since we last left Hanna and her parents and I’m glad that the aging was done the way it was-I didn’t want a carbon Copy of a sequel. I think the letter element was great as well. the twist and reveal, while I kind of guessed part of it towards the end, I really think payed off well and I want more!!

I had initially read BABY TEETH back in 2018, and let me tell you, it scared me. Hanna, the child, was just terrifying [her mother Suzette was pretty scary too]. So when I discovered that one of my favorite authors [especially of Motherhood and Mother-Daughter travails; see also MOTHERED] is bringing out a "stand-alone sequel" to BABY TEETH: with a (gasp!) ADULT Hanna! I knew I had to read it! And it's great! Now we get to understand [I think] a lot more, in depth, of Hanna; and she IS more understandable, and NOT the full-grown psychopath I feared she would be. She even has a close (if circumstantially necessarily distant geographically) with her much younger sibling, Goose.
The author enabled me to elicit empathy for Hanna, which had been problematical in BABY TEETH, and I actually rooted for her. No, she's not a perfect angel; but she's learned a lot more Impulse Control, and some of her relationships are helpful. DEAR HANNA is definitely going to be one of my Best of 2024, and a Future Reread.