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The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
5.0
dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A woman travels to deepest darkest Ruralmerica to clean out her grandmother's house as a favour to her dad. She finds the journal of her step-grandfather and a strange hill behind the house that shouldn't be there covered in whote stone carvings, and something comes for her out of the woods. Thrilling and spooky tale with a truly endearing narrative voice and the most lovable and well-developed doggy character I've seen in years. Funny, but unnerving under the funny. Damn finely crafted piece of fiction.