Sunday, April 7, 2024

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

 

After really enjoying the hell out of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, I figured I'd read another book by Ms. Harrow--and while this book is not quite so superb as that one, it's an excellent book. Darkish kinda rural-folkish Fantasy (curses and ghosts and a house that's plausibly sapient) with a Romantic streak at least a mile wide. Yeah, there's a love story at the center of it, but that's not exactly what I mean by that Romantic streak. Also an open-ended ending that's arguably a happy one.

at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age by Raphael Cormack

  Started this little book in a coffee shop this morning, finished it this evening. It's a weird book, there's a veneer of scholarsh...

  • My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby
      A beautiful novel of violence, vengeance and pain, set against a backdrop of small-town bigotry. If you see this, or *Razorblade Tears*, t...
  • Paper Cage by Tom Baragwanath
    A grim and gritty novel, bristling with menace, stuffed to the brim with characters it's difficult to like--mainly because t...
  • Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
      A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...