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Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
5.0
adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

6 stars. 14 stars. 72 stars. If you liked Midsommar, this is for you. If you wished White Lotus were more haunted and putrid, this is for you. Like The Da Vinci Code, but fucked up and with much more interesting characters and, you know, a vicious demon witch ghost. If you don’t like really ugly family dynamics or vivid descriptions of rotting food, this is not for you. 

Never read a proper horror novel before and wondered how words on a page could be scary and now I’ll never wonder that again. Terrifying, tense, funny, gratifying, in equal measure. 

I love Anna and I love this journey for her. Read this book in the dark and the quiet, and you won’t put it down.