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This book only has 480 ratings over on Goodreads, and I think it deserves more readers!

The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks

January 9, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was actually given this book for free in my first Aardvark Book Club box, so it wasn’t one I was really interested in reading, but a free book is a free book, so I thought I’d give it a shot. And I liked it! It was a little bit messy in terms of pacing, and the blurb is pretty misleading, but I was so angry by the end of the book, I have to give it props, because it managed to get me invested […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elizabeth Brooks, epistolary, gothic, historical fiction, narfna, The House in the Orchard

narfna's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elizabeth Brooks, epistolary, gothic, historical fiction, narfna, The House in the Orchard ·
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if it feels too good to be true…

The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks

March 29, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

THEN IT IS! RUN! Freya, our protagonist, is a willfully clueless horror heroine. Were The Whispering House a movie, we would all be shouting at her every time she was on screen. Don’t open that door! Don’t drink that tea! Don’t go up those stairs! Don’t look behind you! Don’t move in to the crumbling manor house that is somehow connected to your sister’s suicide days after meeting the charming yet off-putting man of the house! Just…DON’T! A blurb on the cover of my ARC states […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, art, British Lit, class warfare, coastal England, Elizabeth Brooks, Gothic Horror, Haunted House, tin house, tin house galley club

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, art, British Lit, class warfare, coastal England, Elizabeth Brooks, Gothic Horror, Haunted House, tin house, tin house galley club ·
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