Starling House Alix E. Harrow

by Alix e. Harrow
Starling House Published by Tor Publishing Group on October 3, 2023
Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Fiction / Gothic
Pages: 320
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick)

Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January.

I dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen....

Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago.

All she left behind were dark rumors—and her home. Everyone agrees that it’s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway.

I should be scared, but in the dream I don’t hesitate.

Opal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. When she gets the chance to step inside Starling House—and make some extra cash for her brother's escape fund—she can't resist.

But sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House, and Arthur’s own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around.

In my dream, I’m home.

And now she’ll have to fight.

Welcome to Starling House: enter, if you dare.

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Review:

I became a fan of this author with her book Ten Thousand Doors of January. I added this book to my list when Reeses Book Club read it, but the library wait was long. When a friend’s book club on Fable said they would read, I quickly grabbed a copy from the library. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. We have Opal, who lives in a hotel with her brother Jasper, who has severe asthma. Still, unfortunately, they live in a town called Eden that has terrible air quality due to the Graverly Corporation. Opal has been obsessed with a story from her childhood, and the author’s house is Eden. What unfolds in Opal’s desperate attempt to get Jasper to a healthier environment and her desperation leads her to Starling House and the dark secret of Underland. Opal will also unravel the truth about her family and what happened to the author of Underland. Starling House was a mix of urban fantasy, a tribute to Alice in Wonderland and the lengths you go to for your family.

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