A sentient house. The innocent maid who comes to work there. And the owner who must feed. 

     Let me start off by saying that I really enjoyed these illustrations. I loved the style of having everything black and white but with splashes of red. I also loved that the story was told through the point of view of the sentient house. I’ve never read anything like that before and it really intrigued me! However, I did have some complaints.

    I didn’t care about the characters. Maybe this was because the house was the narrator and it’s hard to establish personality from that point of view. But I couldn’t connect to the characters. Also the writing was not my favorite. It could be very confusing at times. I think it tried to sound lyrical and that kept things from actually making sense with the story. And my last complaint is that there really wasn’t much plot. It gave a backstory, then one thing happened, one more thing happened, and it was over.

     I loved the illustrations, the beautiful cover, and the innovation of the narration. But sadly, I didn’t love this book. For anyone that is planning to read this book definitely check my list of trigger warnings at the bottom.

Thank you TKO Studios and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.

TW: animal death; hunting and skinning animals; taxidermy; graphic gore; murder; domestic abuse; nudity