Alix E Harrow

Reviewed on 8th February 2025

While not my usual choice of genre, this book leapt off the table in the bookshop and demanded that I buy it, and so I did.

It’s a sort of horror romance, about a young woman bringing up her younger brother in a run down American town with a creepy house.

The story isn’t really all that creepy - and the reader sees a bit more, probably, than the character, which helps it feel a bit safer. It does however try to expose a lot of nasty things about the town’s history and what it’s done to marginalised people in both the past and recent times.

I really liked the book. Maybe not enough to want to go and hunt out more by the author, but enough to consider recommending it to a friend, if I can find one I think will be into this genre twister.

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