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A review by drolefille
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Alix Harrow has the ability to transport me to another place and time. In this case it's our time but it's a small coal mining town in Kentucky. Where nothing good happens and no one ever really makes it out.
I was so into Opal's experience, I tasted the air, felt the motel bedspread, and joined her in her dreams of Underland and Starling House. This is a story about a family trying to survive after tragedy, about a House that's more alive than inert, about a man fighting monsters no one else believes in, and about the stories of what happened when the original owners of the mine died, one after the other. Who killed them? The daughter, the widow, the enslaved miners or something more mysterious; and who believes which story?
I was so into Opal's experience, I tasted the air, felt the motel bedspread, and joined her in her dreams of Underland and Starling House. This is a story about a family trying to survive after tragedy, about a House that's more alive than inert, about a man fighting monsters no one else believes in, and about the stories of what happened when the original owners of the mine died, one after the other. Who killed them? The daughter, the widow, the enslaved miners or something more mysterious; and who believes which story?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Car accident and Death
Minor: Physical abuse, Slavery, and Death of parent