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To say that this book is my favourite horror novel, would be an understatement.
I have always been very intimidated by classics, and this is the first classic I have ever read so naturally, I was hesitant. But then I read the first line and before I knew it, I was reading the last line. This classic literally left me breathless. The fact that I didn't know what I was getting myself into, just added on to it. I expected the horror to be supernatural, but it quickly became a thriller.
The foreshadowing, the descriptions, the inner monologue all was just so wonderful. This one paragraph where the author related this children's game, “The Old Witch” to explain her feelings and horror, left me in absolute awe. Maybe it was because I used to play that game a lot or maybe it was due to the brilliance of her mind to connect it with the book. The way the author wrote, left me with goosebumps. I did not want the novel to end. And now that it has ended, I don't know what to do with myself.

This is the book I would want to be buried with.
Gillian Flynn really knows people. These characters, they are real. The most terrifying thing about her books is that all of the stuff which unfolds is very very distrubingly real. It is more of a non-fiction and a study than it is a fiction. Weirdly enough there is relief in that. They help me find solutions more than a self help book ever can even though they are in the end, murder mysteries.

This was so disappointing. How can you still love someone who MURDERS your father? The author tries to justify it with the fact that her father was awful to humans but the fact that he saved her, protected her, trusted her and loved her, deserves more than getting betrayed by the only human he showed his vulnerability to. It could have been a wonderful novel about fatherly love like maleficent but nooo it had to be about falling for a shitty man who literally fell for another woman while his wife was pregnant.

A lovely treat!
I cannot think of a purer love than this. Very very funny, I laughed a lot. Very easy to read too. The plot twist of Howl knowing about her curse from the very start, linked so perfectly that it was very satisfying to read. Every character is so charming. The ending was just so...perfect, how they just go into a world of their own even while everyone is bugging them because after all Sophie is an elder sibling and they cannot have a single moment of just their own. They truly are soulmates. I cannot think of anymore adjectives to describe this book. Any elder sibling would love this story.