04/19/2023
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𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 by 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘥
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𝙈𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 stars)
𝙈𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨:
So much to say here… I’m going to try to be as succinct as possible but even 12 hours after finishing this book my heads still spinning, so I’ll probably fail.
𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨…
If you got this book from NetGalley and had it sent to your kindle, be aware that the formatting is off. Line breaks where there shouldn’t be, random 1’s and 0’s, etc. I think it actually added to my enjoyment of this book, because I had to read it super closely instead of just letting myself zone into it, but it took me a bit to get used to it.
𝘕𝘰𝘸, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧…
If someone were to hand me this book, and I’d never heard of Catriona Ward and never read anything she wrote, I might have decided to put this one down after the first third. Sure, it was interesting, but in such a way that is pretty standard and can be found in many other gothic horror novels. In fact, I wouldn’t even consider the first third particularly “horror”.
But as it was, I knew better. And boy am I glad I did. This is my fifth novel by Ms. Ward. She was an auto-buy after 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙡. I would read the instructions on a shampoo bottle if she wrote them.
The twists, the mind-bending, the gender fluidity, the absolute “wtaf is going on here”… this isn’t a book you can read once and move on with your life. I’ll have to read it at least twice to even have a minor grasp. But I will, and happily.
Catriona Ward has earned her place on my shelf among Stephen King and Chuck Wendig. I absolutely cannot wait to see where her imagination takes me next.
Thank you to NetGalley, Tor Nightfire and Catriona Ward for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.
𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 will be available in the US on August 8th 2023.
🆀🅾🆃🅳: I got nothing, lol. It’s been a weird week and I’m tired. How are y’all doing?
