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A review by seashelfs
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4.0
(4.25)
It's such a short book but deeply unsettling.
There is something particularly disturbing with Mary Katherine's narrative - Merricat, for short. I often forget she's 18 as her voice reads so much younger. Most of the family haven't matured mentally past the night of the murders. Merricat is childish, bratty, and spoiled but, she has a particular element in her that makes her dangerous. And I'm not talking about her hobby of folk witchcraft.
It's such a short book but deeply unsettling.
There is something particularly disturbing with Mary Katherine's narrative - Merricat, for short. I often forget she's 18 as her voice reads so much younger. Most of the family haven't matured mentally past the night of the murders. Merricat is childish, bratty, and spoiled but, she has a particular element in her that makes her dangerous. And I'm not talking about her hobby of folk witchcraft.