Disclaimer: if you do not like gothic horror literature, this is not for you and that’s fine- that being said I loved it! I loved it with my whole chest. 

This is Alice in Wonderland, tumbles into the Labyrinthine ballroom scene, and everyone starts doing acid in the haunting of Hill house. 

‘A wife? No, what he needed, wanted, was a place to hold him and his secrets. A little hidden door that led to all kinds of hidden places in a woman, and she had agreed. She had come and let him fill her.’

The writing style changing with the tone once she arrives, and begins to experience the house is brilliant. You experience things the way Orabella is experiencing them… I can’t really say more without giving it away, but didI mentioned, I love this book? 

‘She couldn’t force her mouth into the shapes to form words, to turn the sound that poured from it into something understandable by human ears.’

The writing is beautiful, it’s dripping with atmosphere, and I want to read it again, to catch things I didn’t catch before.  Expertly crafted gothic horror 😮‍💨. 

The last paragraph of the epilogue gutted me 

damnit elias💔🥲