Review
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC.
As I was reading this book I was making notes, mostly because I was vibing along with the book. Some of these notes included:
-reminiscent of Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle
-also had me likening it to T. Kingfisher.
Literally, if you mashed those two things up you’d have this books vibes and atmosphere. It very much blurred the lines between reality and fiction/fairytales. As you all know, those are some of my favorite things, especially some of the darker ones.
This evoked feelings of gothic horror, slight dark academia and dark fairytales. The combination of these things was delectable. You never knew what was going to happen next.
While the book I wouldn’t say is super gruesome, it does have some more descriptive parts to do with body horror. Just in warning.
Dark cottagecore? This book embodies that trope/feeling. I don’t know what to call it.
I definitely was enthralled with this book. The book was beautifully written, there are not enough good things I can say about that. It felt lush and atmospheric and had such a haunting and a bit of a lonely vibe to it.
I’m finding it hard to put into words this book — but if you’re looking for something spooky, haunting, gothic, horror with a tad of otherness to it, then you definitely need to pick up this book.
This was the list of vibes/feelings/things I thought of while reading this book:
TRC Vibes
love the writing style
atmospheric
evokes feelings
the relationships
sort of dark academia-ish
gothicish undertones
horror elements
fairytale elements
oh sh*t