Starling House
The perfect dark, Gothic fairytale and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
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Natalie Naudus
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Alix E. Harrow
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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.
Opal is a lot of things – orphan, high-school dropout, full-time cynic. Most of all, she’s determined to find a better life for her younger brother. One that gets them both out of Eden, a town renowned for bad luck. So when Opal gets the chance to earn a good wage at Starling House, Eden’s very own haunted mansion, she can’t resist.
Her new workplace is uncanny and full of secrets – just like Arthur, its brooding heir. It also feels strangely, dangerously, like something Opal never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Eden, Opal realizes she might finally have found a reason to stick around. But now she’ll have to fight for it . . .
This is a romantic and spellbinding Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.
Praise for Starling House
‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent‘ – Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six
‘Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet‘ – Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning
‘This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting‘ – Reese Witherspoon
**A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick**
Fans 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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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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