Loved itIt's just classic kingfisher whimsy and creepy and like, I had a really fun time. The vultures are very cool.
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A House With Good Bones (2023)
Others: Mostly positive A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones explores the deep, dark roots of family. Sam Montgomery is worried about her mother. She seems anxious, jumpy, and she’s begun making mystifying changes to the family home on Lammergeier Lane. Sam figures it has something to do with her mother’s relationship to Sam’s late, unlamented grandmother. She’s not wrong. As vultures gather around the house and frightful family secrets are unearthed under the rosebushes, Sam struggles to unravel the truth about the house on Lammergeier Lane before it consumes her and everyone else who stands in its way.
- ISBN:
- 9781250829818
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- 272 pages
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Loved itI also read a house with good bones this year which I also loved it didn't make into the top five but that was also a really fun one that I enjoyed
Loved itthis is like a cozy Horror Story which I didn't even know could exist very lovable main characters
Not a fanI found the main character to be inconsistent and I just think the book introduced too many ideas for such a short one that I didn't feel like settled in any concept at any point