Welcome to my stop on the Our Gifted Hearts by Jennifer Kennedy tour 🖤

This one has all the right ingredients, especially for this time of year! A dark, feminist Bluebeard retelling with witchy undertones and a setting and vibes straight out of Rebecca or Jane Eyre??? Yes, please! I loved the atmosphere and the gothic tension, and if you're into slow, eerie stories that build on mood and isolation, this will definitely hit the spot. Thanks so much to Angry Robot Books for the gifted copy!

S Y N O P S I S:

When she’s accused of witchcraft, Fortune must flee her village to spare her neck, marrying a man she barely knows. But is the man who promises to be her saviour all he seems?

Fortune Blyth suffered the loss of a secret child when she was sixteen and vowed never to let another man touch her. Ten years later she is content with Ma and her beloved birds.

But when witch hunters come to town it isn’t long before fingers are pointed at the spinster and she is forced to choose; stay and hang, or marry a man who can offer her safety far from home. She chooses marriage.

Her husband’s island home is not the safe haven she expected, with a surly housekeeper and an eccentric mother-in-law to contend with. And there is something else; secrets hiding in the walls, demons creeping in her nightmares. Something sinister in the concealed tunnels below the house. It turns out she is not his first bride... Perhaps she would have been better off hanging after all.

QOTD: If you're celebrating, what are you dressing up as for Halloween this year?! I usually don't wear a costume, but my kid's going to be one of like, a million Rumi's out there this year 😅

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