⚠️ CW: childhood trauma, religious trauma, animal death, cannibalism ⚠️ If you're looking for a horror read with a dysfunctional family, dark secrets and Satanism then this book is for you! Nobody has a 'normal' family but Vesper Wright’s is truly something else. Vesper left home at 18 and never looked back, mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep with an invitation to the wedding of her beloved cousin. However the catch is that it’s to be hosted at the family farm. Vesper's mind spirals with confusion, have they made an exception to the rules? Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? She has no idea but something inside her insists she must go to the wedding, even if it means returning to the toxic environment that she escaped from and reuniting with her mother. When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world. This book was such a good read and it really had me hooked throughout but unfortunately it didn't fully live up to the hype. I absolutely loved the plot and all of the secrets that were waiting to be unearthed. I think my issue was that I really didn't like Vesper and I can't even explain why, I just didn't particularly gel to her and found her cynicism of everything to be quite annoying so despite loving the book that did drop it down a bit. Overall, if you're a horror fan I would definitely recommend giving this one a read.