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The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

There were several distracting copyediting/continuity issues, such as the event that took place in the morning room being consistently referred to after as taking place in the graveyard. Nothing that made it unreadable though.

After wondering for a bit if this would turn out to be a sapphic fanfiction of Crimson Peak, I laughed in delight when
the similarities were lampshaded through Phoebe having determined falsely that that was what was actually going on, and as well I also enjoyed the other mentions of Carmilla, Jane Eyre, and Lizzie Borden as plot twist options.


Great sex scene, though I wish it had come after Alexandra's confession, and I felt Kit was a bit too quick to forgive
the gaslighting the siblings did, even if it wasn't severe.
I was pleased to see characters in this novel being very nonjudgmental towards people with disability/"disfigurement"
including, eventually, the love interest
similar to the Aubrey and Lindsey duology and I wonder if that will be a through line in all Nothwell novels. As for the final reveal, it wasn't 100% to my taste, but I did enjoy how the different threads were tied up.

A little aside, but I really enjoyed the way the characters found solace in reading literature via a sapphic lens/connecting to literature that included sapphic desire. 
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