Hello friends! This month's book is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.
Content Warning!!! Before reading this book please be aware it contains situations and subjects related to: classism, racism, drugs, alcohol, death of a parent, murder, and blood/injury description.
Synopsis:
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot.
Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.
As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.
If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it." - synopsis from the hardback edition of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.
Pre-Read Thoughts:
We are looking forward to reading a book on the spookier side to bring us into the spooky season this year. We are also exited for more of a southern gothic vibe that this book seems to have, which I don't think we've read here at Shelf Explored yet.
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