I actually really like the cover here - it suits the book, bizarre thing that it is! I came into it expecting a haunted house type of story with mythological overtones, and while it starts that way, by the end it's something quite different. I don't want to spoil anything, but while the mythic elements remain it almost feels as if it's shifted into quite another sub-genre of horror... creature feature rather than haunted house, if that makes sense. I happen to enjoy creepy monsters as well as creepy houses, but I'm not sure that the transition worked quite as well as it should have for me. Possibly, though, that's a result of expectation overcoming result.

I've always enjoyed the Persephone myth - full disclosure, am in the very early stages of working on a retelling myself - and what I like best about it is how, like most myths, it can be adapted to different times and locations. I'd never have thought of adding monsters to it, but I can't deny that there's something very, very disturbing about their presence here. I would have left that house long before Sara did, that's for sure. LONG before.