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A review by gothgirls_readingnook
What Happened at Hawthorne House by Hadassah Shiradski
4.0
“Dead Moths. Dead Butterflies. Dead spiders.”
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts
Merged review:
“Dead Moths. Dead Butterflies. Dead spiders.”
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts
Trigger Warnings:
Gore
Violence
Pranks gone to far
Bullying
Boredom
Horror
Lots of insects
Books Content Warnings:
Intense bullying
Child abuse and endangerment
Child harm
Detailed depictions of child death
Abuse (physical and psychological)
Neglect
Death
Part one:
Kids can be mean and cruel and this book demonstrates that in a horrific manner. These kids took a game too far and paid the price.
Instead of creating a beautiful court of royals they built it on pranks and having to outdo the higher up to become queen. The pranks and games became worse and worse…. I felt bad for the new girls and all the girls that participated in something like this. Girls can be mean.
I think this book is very dark and creepy.
Honestly it’s quite morbid, but not a bad read.
Part two:
I love the rebuild of the home and how the game continued even in the afterlife of the girls.
I feel the new Ambassador knew what he was doing when it came to the house and how to interact with the girls.
I also like how visitors were able to come and see ‘spirits’ and how the Ambassador wrote down all his sightings and interactions, like a researcher would.
I feel the second part went by fast and wanted more. Maybe have the girls find peace and make their way, and Hawthorne house becoming a normal house once again.
Overall it was a great read. Thank you NetGalley and Bridge Gates Press for allowing me to be an ARC reader.
Merged review:
“Dead Moths. Dead Butterflies. Dead spiders.”
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts
Merged review:
“Dead Moths. Dead Butterflies. Dead spiders.”
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts
Trigger Warnings:
Gore
Violence
Pranks gone to far
Bullying
Boredom
Horror
Lots of insects
Books Content Warnings:
Intense bullying
Child abuse and endangerment
Child harm
Detailed depictions of child death
Abuse (physical and psychological)
Neglect
Death
Part one:
Kids can be mean and cruel and this book demonstrates that in a horrific manner. These kids took a game too far and paid the price.
Instead of creating a beautiful court of royals they built it on pranks and having to outdo the higher up to become queen. The pranks and games became worse and worse…. I felt bad for the new girls and all the girls that participated in something like this. Girls can be mean.
I think this book is very dark and creepy.
Honestly it’s quite morbid, but not a bad read.
Part two:
I love the rebuild of the home and how the game continued even in the afterlife of the girls.
I feel the new Ambassador knew what he was doing when it came to the house and how to interact with the girls.
I also like how visitors were able to come and see ‘spirits’ and how the Ambassador wrote down all his sightings and interactions, like a researcher would.
I feel the second part went by fast and wanted more. Maybe have the girls find peace and make their way, and Hawthorne house becoming a normal house once again.
Overall it was a great read. Thank you NetGalley and Bridge Gates Press for allowing me to be an ARC reader.
Merged review:
“Dead Moths. Dead Butterflies. Dead spiders.”
A nine-year old girl named Rosalyn lives at an orphanage with a group of other girls her age. Who finds themselves bored. Rosalyn invents a game, that quickly took a turn for the worst…
Gothic-Horror Novella set in 1926
My Thoughts