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A review by tricapra
It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan
4.0
When the very-pregnant Elizabeth returns to her rotting ancestral home on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, she upends the lives of her reclusive, alcoholic mother and unstable sister, who herself moved back home after a vicious mugging that left her struggling with PTSD.
I went into this very blind, I liked the cover on Netgalley so I went ahead and requested it. By the time it arrived, I had completely forgotten any blurb that may have been included. This was absolutely for the best. A compelling gothic horror, Jo Kaplan had me uncomfortable and uneasy with where the story was heading. All the trappings of a gothic classic are here, the (very literally haunted) House as character, a woman on the brink of madness, engrossing prose. Definitely a page-turner, I'd recommend this not just for fans of gothics, but for general horror readers as well.
I went into this very blind, I liked the cover on Netgalley so I went ahead and requested it. By the time it arrived, I had completely forgotten any blurb that may have been included. This was absolutely for the best. A compelling gothic horror, Jo Kaplan had me uncomfortable and uneasy with where the story was heading. All the trappings of a gothic classic are here, the (very literally haunted) House as character, a woman on the brink of madness, engrossing prose. Definitely a page-turner, I'd recommend this not just for fans of gothics, but for general horror readers as well.