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A review by lauriereadslohf
Horrid by Katrina Leno
4.0
I read Horrid for the Ladies of Horror Fiction Group Readalong. You can always join the chat and add your thoughts here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/21730532-november-2020-readalong-horrid-by-katrina-leto
Jane and her mom are relocating from CA to rural Maine when things begin because they have no other options. Jane’s dad passed away unexpectedly and left them broke. Now they’ve moved into an old abandoned estate left to them by Jane’s grandma. So they’re grieving and Jane has left everything familiar and she copes and she tries to resume living and she has all kinds of tough emotions and by some miracle of skillful writing she never goes on whiny poor me tangents and I can’t tell you how much I liked Jane. I really liked Jane. She’s full of complicated and painful emotions and she's dealing with a lot and then she has to unravel a mystery to add more misery to her pile of misery but she digs into it with everything she has.
I thought this was a quirky and thoroughly creepy book from beginning to end. The author maintains that “dread is coming for you!” atmosphere expertly and writes her main character so well. All those tumultuous feelings, the anger, the grief, the dismay at discovering things aren’t quite what they seem and the awful truth that adults can really screw up and can royally screw you up. It’s absolute perfection. I want to say SO much more but I don’t want to ruin the experience for anyone. I did find the middle a bit draggy here and there but that could be my distracted mind. The last ¼, well that last ¼ was exactly the type of ending I hope for in my dark reads and I’d absolutely recommend sticking it out if you find it a little slow at times. It’ll be worth it, trust me on this!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/21730532-november-2020-readalong-horrid-by-katrina-leto
Jane and her mom are relocating from CA to rural Maine when things begin because they have no other options. Jane’s dad passed away unexpectedly and left them broke. Now they’ve moved into an old abandoned estate left to them by Jane’s grandma. So they’re grieving and Jane has left everything familiar and she copes and she tries to resume living and she has all kinds of tough emotions and by some miracle of skillful writing she never goes on whiny poor me tangents and I can’t tell you how much I liked Jane. I really liked Jane. She’s full of complicated and painful emotions and she's dealing with a lot and then she has to unravel a mystery to add more misery to her pile of misery but she digs into it with everything she has.
I thought this was a quirky and thoroughly creepy book from beginning to end. The author maintains that “dread is coming for you!” atmosphere expertly and writes her main character so well. All those tumultuous feelings, the anger, the grief, the dismay at discovering things aren’t quite what they seem and the awful truth that adults can really screw up and can royally screw you up. It’s absolute perfection. I want to say SO much more but I don’t want to ruin the experience for anyone. I did find the middle a bit draggy here and there but that could be my distracted mind. The last ¼, well that last ¼ was exactly the type of ending I hope for in my dark reads and I’d absolutely recommend sticking it out if you find it a little slow at times. It’ll be worth it, trust me on this!