Knock Knock, Open wide is a Celtic folk horror story with a murder mystery and sapphic romance. The story weaves multiple perspectives and timel3.75/5
Knock Knock, Open wide is a Celtic folk horror story with a murder mystery and sapphic romance. The story weaves multiple perspectives and timelines together quite masterfully. I found myself both surprised and satisfied by the ending.
I started with the audiobook and felt a bit lost with the alternating pov’s and shifting timelines. Once I switched to a physical book, I found myself appreciating the intricate plot so much more....more
Cinder House is marketed specifically as a Gothic adult fairytale with queer themes yet reads very YA. I found the en2.75/5 (Rounded up for Goodreads)
Cinder House is marketed specifically as a Gothic adult fairytale with queer themes yet reads very YA. I found the entire reading experience very middling from start to finish. This was my first time reading anything by Freya Marske and it certainly doesn’t inspire me to explore her work any further....more
This is a YA gothic haunted house story and I’m rating it on a YA scale. If I was rating it as an adult novel I’d give it a 3.0.
Kate Alice Marsh4.0/5
This is a YA gothic haunted house story and I’m rating it on a YA scale. If I was rating it as an adult novel I’d give it a 3.0.
Kate Alice Marshall weaves a unique reimagining of Arthur Manchen’s 1894 novella, The Great God Pan. In this version, sacrificial women and girls are finally given voice and historically patriarchal assumptions are dismantled. There’s even a sweet little sapphic love story between witch and ghost thrown into the mix....more
“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I4.5/5
“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”
This is an absolute must read! Can’t believe I’d never heard of Mary MacLane until I read Emily Danforth’s novel, Plain Bad Heroines, which was inspired and based upon MacLane’s diary.
To think that MacLane published this back in 1902 is mind-boggling! At the time, she was forced to publish it under the title, The Story of Mary MacLane, as her publishers found her original devilish title too controversial.
MacLane was ahead of her time in every sense. Her unapologetic feminism, outspokenness, queerness and otherness is as inspirational today as it was 120+ years ago.
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity—a virtuous woman.”...more
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