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Starling House

The perfect dark, Gothic fairytale and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Starling House

Von: Alix E. Harrow
Gesprochen von: Natalie Naudus
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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six

Step into Starling House – if you dare. Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Naomi Novik.

No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the house – and its last, lonely heir – go to rot.

Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

But Opal isn’t the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it. She’ll have to dig up her family’s ugly history and let herself dream of a better future. She’ll have to go down, down into Underland, and claw her way back to the light . . .

This is a romantic and spellbinding Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.

'Starling House is Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet' - Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning

‘Gorgeous, poignant, and honest – an unforgettable read’ - Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

Readers love Starling House:

'This book is literally EVERYTHING TO ME'
'This was the perfect mix of fantasy and horror'
'I will never not be swooning over this book!'
'10/10, no notes, will absolutely read again when I'm prepared to cry'

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This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid and eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything (Reese Witherspoon, Reese’s Book Club October 2023 Pick)
Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent, and Starling House, with its gentle reassurances of the homes we make and the love we deserve, is more than satisfying. It’s pure loveliness in book form (Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six)
Gorgeous, poignant, and honest—an unforgettable read (Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter)
The gaudy, dark seam between horror and romance. Starling House is Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet – if you can survive its slow belly-crawl into hell (Ava Reid, author of Juniper and Thorn)
This is gothic fairy tale at its best and truest: dark and romantic, angry and hopeful . . . I loved it (H.G. Parry, author of The Magician's Daughter)
This book is as knife-edged and sharp as its protagonist, a rich and strange exploration of home and need and want . . . A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic (Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians)
This is one you’re going to love (Glamour Magazine)
Tender and triumphant . . . Starling House will no doubt take its place alongside fiction’s most memorable haunted houses (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
Harrow’s mash-up of twisted fairy tales and Southern gothic fiction is a haunting story of longing, lies, and generational curses (Library Journal, Starred Review)
Alix E. Harrow is a fantasy author who just does not miss. This magical, heartfelt haunted house tale is no different (Paste Magazine)
Devastating, eerie and upbeat (SFX)
A spooky story about how hidden truths always come back to haunt you (Kirkus, Starred Review)
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Starling house really hit me unprepared. Beauty and the Beast Retelling with a magic house? No that's not it! Starling house is like a calm gothic horror movie. Like the Watership Down series which the bunnies who tried to run away and most of them die. It's a horrific Alice in Wonderland where the Cheshire Cat tries to eat you and the white bunny is telling you you're out of time while bleeding on the carpet. And then you turn the page the vision disappears and you're standing in your normal life, but you are shaken and your clothes are all ruined.

The narrator did a crazy good job. Like a spider catching you in the net and trapping you in a cokon. Sometimes I wish for more voices for more povs, but that was not the case here. I was so trapped I couldn't stop listening. Natalie did go all out with whispering and panting and screaming and laughing and sobbing You can hear the smiles and the voice catching in Opal throat, you can hear the surprise and the anger and sometimes the softness, the love. Marvelous work!

It's a book so full of eary and scary pictures but our main character Opal is used to being scared, she refuses to be scared out of spite and out of necessity. Because when you grew up as an orphan trying to provide for your little brother, living in a cheap motel room in the nowhere of Kentucky, you sometimes don't have the luxury to choose. You have to walk home at night alone. You can't effort the sleeping pills. So you endure the nightmares and the looks of pity. And when they heir of the wealthy gothic mansion in town offers you a well paid job, do you have the luxury to refuse? Even if the house is possibly haunted? Even if he looks like the shadow of a man? Even if everybody in town gossips about this house and the people living there? Even if you had nightmares of being inside the house before you ever were? Even if the floorboards creak and the cupboards open by themselves? Even if you saw a strange shape moving behind the tree line? Why would you make that hold you back from the money you need and the home you never had?

The mistery is very well done and got me intrigued. Opal is a character I grew to liking so fast. In every tight spot I wished everything would end well for her and I could never predict what would happen next. Starling House had me on the edge of my seat, always ready to jump. And as a hobby writer I wish I will one day write a book that gets under the skin and into the dreams of people like Starling House did to me.

Wow! I'm baffled, I'm bewildered, I loved it!

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