pickLitsy, there are times I eat with family and for the 1 1/2 hrs I am with them it‘s pure torture, so I can only imagine what 9 days in a Tuscan villa with 6 dysfunctional family members feels like for Anna. A nagging mother who wants stuff to happen so she can be a mother. An emotionally absent brick wall of a dad. A clingy twin who can‘t take responsibility for his choices. A sister so insecure, who just comes off so hateful and jealous. 👇🏼
Reggie And oh yeah, the Tuscan villa is haunted. I was laughing a lot at the sheer audacity of this horrible family. Have ya‘ll ever seen that episode of Family Guy where Meg admits that she knows she has to be the most hated family member or else they all fall apart. This was a lot like that. Don‘t read if you need to like characters. But it was a pick. 1mo
Suet624 Well I surely won‘t be stacking this one but I love the review of it. 1mo
Leftcoastzen 👏😁Love your review! 1mo
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Bookzombie Great review! 🙂 I would stack if I hadn‘t already. 1mo
Reggie @Suet624 @Leftcoastzen Thanks, ladies. It was a total Jerry Springer show. 1mo
Reggie @Bookzombie I feel like I was on YouTube shorts where they go, members of Reddit what was the time you decided to cut ties with your family. And Anna goes but in that robotic voice they use, one time me and my family were staying at a haunted Italian villa. lol it was a little crazypants. I hope you like it. 1mo
AmyG I really liked this one. Horor and my love of dysfunctional families 🙌🏻 1mo
Centique Brilliant review - i would visit the haunted Italian villa with you but lets make it a Littens Reading Adventure, no dysfunctional family members. (How bad is this haunted villa anyway? 🤪) 1mo
Reggie @AmyG when she told the brother she had an abortion and then he proceeds to tell the worst person possible. And then later on she tells the parents on Anna. They were effing horrible!!!! 1mo
Reggie @Centique lately I find that the horror in horror books has been taking a backseat to their character‘s real life problems. The villa was creepy but I kept thinking what is this horrible family gonna do next? Christina Henry wrote this godawful book with really bad horror, but you know what I think about 5 months later? If she‘s gonna keep her and her son off the streets. Their affordable apartment was sold out from under them. She has a 👇🏼 1mo
Reggie moment where she says I‘m just so tired of just surviving. That‘s all I‘ve ever done since I‘ve had my son. None of that had to do with the horror in the book- which btw was horrible. Anyways, if you‘re thinking about tackling a horror book-go for Grady Hendrix‘s Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. It‘s light on the witchcraft and heavy on teenage pregnant girls of the 1960s. So good. 1mo
Centique @Reggie that sounds much more achievable for me! Ive been thinking about how a lot of the horror i come across (but dont watch! 🤪) is entwined w the characters personal issues. Like a parallel between whats evil and happens in reality and whats evil and unrealistic in the horror fiction. And i guess its often saying a lot about psychology and harm and repeating trauma… 1mo
Centique It was making me think the horror genre probably has a lot to say about the problems of real lives. 🤔 I probably thought about that because of some of your reviews! 1mo
AmyG Hahahaha…it was great. They were all so awful. Dysfunctional families are my cozies. 🤣 (edited) 1mo
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