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I love her writing, but this book was just plain odd. I didn't like it nearly as much as I thought I would. It was just too 'out there' for me - to the point that it felt like a fantasy novel. I thought it would be creepier. Just meh.
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There is something I find inherently cringe about schaudenfreude porn. I really struggle with novels that follow a privileged character around as they wholeheartedly ruin their lives and waste every opportunity afforded them. (See: Catcher in the Rye. Where the Crawdad’s Sing.)
I just can’t.
Oh, and the plot twist at the end? Were we supposed to not see that coming? Because…
I just can’t.
Oh, and the plot twist at the end? Were we supposed to not see that coming? Because…
A dark, delicious gothic 1962 masterpiece by Shirley Jackson, a master of psychological mystery and horror. Sparse, claustrophobic, and eerie, the story transports us to a creepy mansion surrounded by vicious, small-minded villagers who taunt and mistreat anyone they see as an outsider, especially the two Blackwood sisters at the center of this story. It’s both smart psychological fiction and murder mystery, a dark twisted family drama filled with envy, arsenic, mental illness, and the lies we t
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