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A New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen. When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.
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Rating: 3.11 leaves out of 5-Characters: 3/5 -Cover: 4.5/5-Story: 3/5-Writing: 4/5Genre: Horror, Mystery, Cult, Contemporary, Thriller-Horror: 1.5/5-Cult: 5/5-Contemporary: 4/5-Mystery: 2/5-Thriller: 1/5Type: EbookWorth?: Eh, I guessHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked Loved FavoritedWant to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book.This was a weird book, as in weird how I got to the end. I was reading it and it had caught my attention but I was going to possibly DNF it because I just couldn't stand how I called what I did. Then I notice I was at 52% and told myself just a little more... and I kept doing that till the end. It seemed to go by so fast.Besides that the story was just... okay. I called one of the major plots in the book. There were a lot of repetition. I notice a lot of Rachel's characters are up their own asses. Secondly how she has her MC describe themselves is wrong, like dead wrong. Vesper isn't what she claims to be in the beginning of the book. Also Rachel, if you are going to pick a name for a character and then have the MC call her by her nickname most of the time, please fucking stick to it. The first time that crap happened I was confused as fuck. Make up your damn mind on a name and stick to it please. I was conflicted about MC's past love interest. Like yeah, I get it you left and by that right you don't really have a say BUT... I get it hurts. I just wish Rachel would have made Vesper go ALL in or just not fucking at all. This have a fence up her ass was NOT IT. The whole wedding shit was just that... shit.In this book, I don't think I had this problem in the last one I read, what the hell was up with the random inserts of crap that def didn't belong? It threw me off and took me out of the scene so fast. This is my second book by Rachel and I don't know if she is ever going to get better with her writing. Her editor needs to slow their reading and really pay attention because they have missed some big ass mistakes.Even with all my bashing, I think the fact that it went by fast and the story not being so awful I rated it a 3.11.
