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A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
4.0
dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I love Ursula’s horror. Her characters are so very her and sensible and never make plot convenient mistakes and it’s such a situated horror story of parental trauma and adult children’s fear for their parents that uses horror to answer the age old question: “why is she LIKE this”?
And it’s also a southern gothic story about what lurks under perfectly painted houses because of course it is. Of course it is.