Title: My Darling Dreadful Thing
Series: N/A
Author: Johanna Van Veen
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
Genre: Adult, Horror, Mystery Romance
Reading Source: NetGalley
Length: 384 pages
Format: e-book
Cover Art: 5/5
Overall: 4/5
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these séances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead?Roos is caught red-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects she’s created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.
Review:
Roos Beckman works with her mother on seances with a little help from Ruth, Roos’s spirit companion. When Agnes Knoop stops in for one of the seances and asks Roos to move in with her in the crumbling estate that she inherited from her late husband.The book starts with an interview to see if Roos is mentally stable to stand trail for a crime that she may or may not have committed.The cover is great, the relationship between Roos and Agnes is wonderful. This is an adult novel.
Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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