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From the plot to the main character to the writing itself, this was a drag. It‘s a book club pick but we are just not interested in continuing with it. There is no discernible interior logic to the book, the narrator Phoebe is intolerable, and the plot sets up moments for drama and then under delivers.

Cleveland. It‘s the same as I left it: cold as a broken promise, and just as cruel. This is a city that remembers everything, even what‘s best forgotten.

(Photo: Lonnie Timmons III for The Plain Dealer)

Woof. Okay.
I think the central metaphor is interesting, and there are moments that work, but overall this was not for me, which is a bummer because I love body horror! But the way this is written drove me crazy - so much telling about how everyone is with no introspection. It's constant.

This was a strange little horror that I picked up for #readharder this year. It kept me interested enough to finish but I didn't devour it like so many other books this summer this far. The end was just right but also a little disappointing by the time I came to it.

MY RATING⇢ 4 STARS | GRADE B+
FEATURING⇢
Profoundly Disturbing Storyline
Horror-if-ic
Depressive Tone
Decay & Rot Transformations
Ghost-Like Apparations
This is super creepy and kind of deep at the same time.

See my review here⇢ https://leahsbookishobsession2.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-rust-maidens-by-gwendoly...

Dog niece Shandy lending a paw to day 3 of #7Covers7Days #CoverCrush.

@Zach1Risling would you be interested in the book cover game? Post a book cover you like for 7 days. No explanation or review of book. Tag someone new each day.

I'm on a horror binge before I attend StokerCon and this is a nominee for a Stoker Award so I picked it up with a quickness. It balanced a nice emotional heft with some truly chilling scenes. What happens when your daughters grow up to be something unexpected, something you can't control?