Title: All The Dead Lie DownSeries: N/AAuthor: Kyri McCauleyPublisher: Katherine Tegen BooksPublication Date: May 16, 2023Genre: Young Adult, Horror, LGBQReading Source: KindleLength: 368 pagesFormat: e-bookCover Art: 5/5Overall: 5/5
The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love.The Sleeping House was very much awake . . .Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace—an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate.Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice’s peculiar girls. Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals, while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. Then Alice’s eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her younger sisters, and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie’s compelling behavior and ethereal grace.But as Marin settles in, she can’t escape the anxiety that follows her like a shadow. Dead birds appear in Marin’s room. The children’s pranks escalate. Something dangerous lurks in the woods, leaving mutilated animals in its wake. All is not well at Lovelace House, and Marin must unravel its secrets before they consume her.Review:After tragedy hits Marin leaving her all alone, Alice Lovelace; her mother’s friend and horror novelist, askes Marin to be a nanny to her two small kids, Thea and Wren for the summer.Marin does not know what she is in for. Between the macabre children, eerie house and the terrifying nightmares, this is going to be a summer that Marin will never forget.Creepy and chilling novel. The children were real monsters, with all the pranks and tricks they played on Marin. Scary kids giving baby dolls funerals. Alice was odd to say the least. The romance between Marin and Evie felt authentic. I love a good romance subplot.Perfect for the upcoming Halloween season.
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