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Oof! I started this on Friday, got side tracked and never came back so, it’s a little late but better late than never 🙂
So this month I picked
I went on a buying binge so now I am planning to have you help me pick which one I should read first.
The Cousins
by Karen M. McManus
Library Binding, 337 pages
Published December 1st 2020 by Delacorte Press
Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each other, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they’re surprised… and curious.
Their parents are all clear on one point—not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it’s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious—and dark—their family’s past is.
The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over—and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hardcover, 301 pages
Published June 30th 2020 by Del Rey
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemà Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemà knows little about the region.
NoemĂ is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by NoemĂ; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade NoemĂ’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.
Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help NoemĂ, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as NoemĂ digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.
And NoemĂ, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.
House of Hollow
by Krystal Sutherland
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published April 6th 2021 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Goodreads
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.
As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.
The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.
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This was a hard choice. I’ve heard good things about Cousins and I enjoyed one book by that author already. BUT I’ve wanted to read Mexican Gothic for the longest time, so it won my vote.
I have heard great things about The Cousins and House of Hollow has a pretty yet creepy cover, doesn’t it? I like the sound of all of these! I have read Mexican Gothic and really enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy whichever wins, Michelle!
Oooh, tough pick between Cousins and Mexican Gothic for me.
Mexican Gothic has been on my TBR for a very long time. It sounds wonderfully intriguing 🙂 And it looks like I’m not alone in thinking that’s the one you should pick. Enjoy it if you do end up going that direction!