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House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau
5.0
This is a book for people who know that “real” faeries, while often beautiful, are almost always sly, calculating, and unknowable. If you combined The Cruel Prince, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Crimson Peak, you might get House of Blight.
The Evers, faeries straight out of folklore in all but name, are the distant ruling class in a world where a sickness called blight (a core deep rotting and decaying from the inside out) is a threat to not only humans, but the otherwise nearly immortal Evers. The only exception to this rule are threadmenders, humans with the ability to utilize healing magic, although the use of the power comes at the cost of their own longevity. It is also the only injury or illness, they are unable to heal using their magic.
Enter FMC Edira, a threadmender who has hidden her abilities her entire life. The only thing in the world she cares for is keeping her younger brothers alive and well. When they are both struck down by the blight, her only option is to accept a bargain from the head of the nearest family of Evers. He will hold them in stasis while she learns and trains how to heal blight and agrees to heal their ailing matriarch.
But as always when dealing with the fair folk, there is more to the situation than meets the eye and more than she realizes at stake. At its core, House of Blight is a gothic family drama.
You will and should question the motives of everyone you meet, and a pretty presentation may be concealing ugliness underneath. Breadcrumbs leading to as much of the truth as we know by the end of the novel are cleverly laid, however you are left guessing as to true motivations until the very end.
Definitely a should read for anyone interested in:
-faeries
-family secrets
-gothic settings
-love triangle
-feminine rage
-multi-layered characters
-a unique magic system
An excellent read that will keep you off kilter and guessing into the eleventh hour. I can’t say that I’ve read anything quite like this before, and wasn’t sure how to rate it until the very end. It defied categorization or true understanding for the longest, but ultimately I think that is one of the reasons why I liked it so much.
Thanks to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
The Evers, faeries straight out of folklore in all but name, are the distant ruling class in a world where a sickness called blight (a core deep rotting and decaying from the inside out) is a threat to not only humans, but the otherwise nearly immortal Evers. The only exception to this rule are threadmenders, humans with the ability to utilize healing magic, although the use of the power comes at the cost of their own longevity. It is also the only injury or illness, they are unable to heal using their magic.
Enter FMC Edira, a threadmender who has hidden her abilities her entire life. The only thing in the world she cares for is keeping her younger brothers alive and well. When they are both struck down by the blight, her only option is to accept a bargain from the head of the nearest family of Evers. He will hold them in stasis while she learns and trains how to heal blight and agrees to heal their ailing matriarch.
But as always when dealing with the fair folk, there is more to the situation than meets the eye and more than she realizes at stake. At its core, House of Blight is a gothic family drama.
You will and should question the motives of everyone you meet, and a pretty presentation may be concealing ugliness underneath. Breadcrumbs leading to as much of the truth as we know by the end of the novel are cleverly laid, however you are left guessing as to true motivations until the very end.
Definitely a should read for anyone interested in:
-faeries
-family secrets
-gothic settings
-love triangle
-feminine rage
-multi-layered characters
-a unique magic system
An excellent read that will keep you off kilter and guessing into the eleventh hour. I can’t say that I’ve read anything quite like this before, and wasn’t sure how to rate it until the very end. It defied categorization or true understanding for the longest, but ultimately I think that is one of the reasons why I liked it so much.
Thanks to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.