I’d highly recommend this book and a think readers who enjoy a bit of horror in an atmospheric, northeastern setting with a bit of romance will love it! To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Evie also holds the answers to: The horror in the woods, the forest cemetery, the secrets the House hides, her father’s tragic drowning, Alice’s increasingly destructive behaviour, why death seems to stalk the family. We were directly told things like "the girls are demons" and "Alice was scary and wrong" despite only seeing the girls be normal mischievous kids who recently lost their father, and seeing Alice The Big Bad?If you love a book with necromancy, creepy houses, the walking dead (not the show), witty troublesome kids, and a wonderful sapphic romance? Elise Dumpleton is the creator of The Nerd Daily and has a degree in Internet Communications—so all things coding, marketing, and more! A compulsively readable jewel of the genre, All The Dead Lie Down, will seize you with an eeriness that refuses to relent. Marin however is desperate to fit in, to belong and find a second home with the Lovelaces, her only tie to her mother. If I'm being honest, I've been in a spooky mood all year, but let's say that this is my official entryway into Halloween-time).

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.From the outset it has all of my favorite things: Emily Dickinson references, Ivy by Taylor Swift references, gothic romance, inspired by The Haunting of Bly Manor, a sapphic relationship, adorable kids, exploration of grief through fantasy, etc. Did I meet McCauley at age 17 and then promptly forget about that encounter while she went off and wrote an entire novel about me? I have a day off today so I’m meeting a friend this morning, then I’m hoping to read a bit of my new book which I’m really enjoying. The way they acted made me completely forget that they were only 17 and also that the story was set in the modern day.

I was trying to figure out what was going on with the two young kids and was expecting at any moment they would turn into demon children. Being able to spot the similarities and differences between in today’s 22nd and 20th culture kept me actively engaged in this wonderful book. I found that it was very relevant to today’s social struggles in Texas despite being published in 1998 and set in the 70’s. A little young but the relationship was done very tastefully and there was an innocence about it that I appreciated.Both girls have lost so much, both are at sea in grief, both have secrets (some bigger than others), and both want to belong to someone. This book definitely enjoys a Gothic Horror leaning aesthetic, and the bones and the sprawling estate fit with greenhouse and ancient cemetery really make this setting feel real and get your ready for the story being told. If you liked What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher, House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig I think you’ll really like this one. But Molly’s already preoccupied, following the passage of a bill to legalise the carrying of hidden weapons, and burdened by the wealth of personal memories this brings. At times though you think that Evie and Marin could be a bit older, but you realize they are older in a way because of everything they have gone through.