A review by ashely_56
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

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

5.0

This was such an incredible read! As some who was introduced to Weclome to.Night-Vale by a friend this books had just enough of that Night-Vale Grim-Whimsy to hook me. 
It had the found family trope that I always enjoy and surprising great asexual representation in the charming Andre. I am happy that our protagonist got some happiness in her life. Yet I must say the Albert section broke my heart into a million pieces.

Yet, This book tell the tragic story of a girl life that was destroyed by vengeance, that in turn bleeds into her afterlife. It shows what revenge can do to a soul when it is the only force guiding you. The Faceless woman is a complicated protagonist while I admire her distain for capitalism and industrialization I can't really get behind Spoiler Alert:


<Murdering each son in the lineage of the person who destroyed her life

I can get behind her murdering the person that actually did it they deserved it but the other people are innocent.>

Yet this books has so many poetic prose and profound moments that I had to give it 5 starts.

A great story if you love, found family trope, paths of vengeance, poetic prose, and pirates!



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