A review by notallbooks_mp
Elizabeth by Jessica Hamilton, Ken Greenhall

3.0

Probably a 2.5 but rounding up. A witchy little book that showed up on a couple of lists of not-to-be-missed but obscure horror, and also featured in Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks From Hell. It clocks in at exactly 150 pages so it’s not much of a commitment, and it has been compared to both Shirley Jackson and Daphne DuMaurier. I disagree on both counts, but I understand why other people are so taken with it. I feel like the writing is fairly clunky at times and the character motivations are practically nonexistent, but Elizabeth’s first person narration is compelling in a way it shouldn’t be, and the witchiness isn’t something I’m used to so that was fun? My brain can’t stop thinking about the tale this tells if the witching is actually delusion, though—far more bleak and less agency for Elizabeth.