Selena leaves her emotionally abusive relationship with only $27, her dog Copper, and nowhere obvious to go. She heads into the desert looking for her eccentric Aunt Amelia, and instead finds herself in a town that knows everyone’s business, a house full of secrets, and something in the desert that never really left. Snake-Eater is another example of why T. Kingfisher remains one of my favorite authors: a story that’s […]
The Black Hunger sounded like the perfect historical horror novel just in time for the spooky season. I was expecting a read similar to The Historian, but with more elements of horror. Unfortunately, though the premise of the novel is incredibly fascinating, the execution of it just didn’t work for me. The Black Hunger is plagued with pacing issues and doesn’t get into the horror elements until well into the book. […]
While I’ve never met a T. Kingfisher book I didn’t like, What Feasts at Night was regrettably not my favorite of her works by any means. Though the novella does a great job setting the atmosphere of fictional country Gallacia, it failed to truly creep me out like its predecessor, What Moves the Dead, or like her other works, The Twisted Ones and A House with Good Bones. Though I […]
As it’s October, I really wanted to read some more spooky books, whether they were actually scary or just in the spirit of Halloween. I knew it was going to be hard to follow up to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, so I figured that Katherine Arden, the author of one of my favorites, The Bear and the Nightingale, would be a safe bet. And despite being for […]
What Moves the Dead is a retelling of one of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe works, The Fall of the House of Usher. I really wasn’t sure what to expect from What Moves the Dead, as this was my first time reading both a Poe retelling and anything by T. Kingfisher. At first, I was really perplexed by what the heck I was reading, as What Moves the Dead spends […]