Recommended to fans of Tie Haunting of Hill House or We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
The story of a family with multiple unnatural deaths in their past. Sets of female twins. A house which appears to be alive. And a mysterious man-like figure who can transform into a snake, and can only be seen only by the young girls.
All the elects you need for a creepy, eerie and gothic tale.
Told in first person narrative, with chapters alternating between the widowed father, Alife, and Julia, the sister of his deceased wife. Their lives are connected by Julia’s mother, Alfie’s overbearing mother-in-law, and the twin daughters, Julia’s nieces.
You can imagine this as a noir film, with much of the narrative gold in voiceover, with lots of cigarette smoke and whisky on ice.
Things also get a little sexy between Alfie and Julia, she is her dead sisters twin and perhaps fill a void in Alfie’s life.
A dark look into grief, loss, and those who left to continue their lives after tragedy befalls a family.
Dark as it is, it’s an enjoyable read with a good plot and rounded, believable characters.
The story of a family with multiple unnatural deaths in their past. Sets of female twins. A house which appears to be alive. And a mysterious man-like figure who can transform into a snake, and can only be seen only by the young girls.
All the elects you need for a creepy, eerie and gothic tale.
Told in first person narrative, with chapters alternating between the widowed father, Alife, and Julia, the sister of his deceased wife. Their lives are connected by Julia’s mother, Alfie’s overbearing mother-in-law, and the twin daughters, Julia’s nieces.
You can imagine this as a noir film, with much of the narrative gold in voiceover, with lots of cigarette smoke and whisky on ice.
Things also get a little sexy between Alfie and Julia, she is her dead sisters twin and perhaps fill a void in Alfie’s life.
A dark look into grief, loss, and those who left to continue their lives after tragedy befalls a family.
Dark as it is, it’s an enjoyable read with a good plot and rounded, believable characters.