Snake-Eater (2025)

And then Snake Eater, I liked Snake Eater. It wasn't my favorite necessarily, but I was like, "Oh, I hope that magic that I have found present in T. Kingfisher's works, I hope that spark that I have with it doesn't get lost."

I will say that the writing in this is really good, which you can also always rely on T King Fisher for, is to have very standout writing and to mash genres like cozy and horror in a way that works and is very specific. But this is a very weird book and it didn't always work the way that I was hoping to because despite this being a horror about a girl who moves into her dead aunt's house and finds out that a roadrunner god wants to boink her, it's mostly about the fact that girl is a chronic people pleaser, including when the people are vengeful Roadrunner gods.

The setting was great. The sort of cozy horror fantasy aspect, the found family was fun. World building was basically non-existent and the writing style and the protagonist did not work for me at all.