She lost six sisters, her mother, and father. The story revolves around seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas, who is stuck in the family estate of Highmoor with her 14-years-older sister Camille and her family, despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores. It feels like you're transported into the story, feeling branches of trees slowly tingling your neck, smelling those flowers, getting lost in the long corridors of Chauntilalei, playing tricks with you, hearing those ominous peacocks' screams!
You are drawn into a complex, riveting, and very much intriguing, bleak, dark plot, getting startled by an intense, disturbing, gothic atmosphere. Moreau," "The Haunting of Hill House," several Toro movies including "Crimson Peak" and "Pan's Labyrinth." This book is an amazing mashup of "The Island of Dr. I need a sequel, and I absolutely need it ASAP! My brain cells are about to burst out! I keep thinking about those unexpected, shocking twists and hitting my forehead with my palm, screaming, "how could I not see them?" It's obvious we have a very intelligent trickster author who writes hell of brilliant books that rock our world! That jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, earth-shattering ending of the book made me scream in the middle of the night. Now, I compare each of them with this book, and I probably won't enjoy most of them. This book ruined me for any other YA fantasy/sci-fi novels. This is even better than "House of Salt and Sorrows." Three things I have to say after reading this OUTSTANDING novel! blossoms.īut it’s not long before Verity is plagued with nightmares, and the darker side of Bloem begins to show through its sickly-sweet façade. At first, she is captivated by the lush, luxurious landscape and is quickly drawn to charming, witty, and impossibly handsome Alexander Laurent. Stunned, Verity flees Highmoor that night and-with nowhere else to turn-makes her way to Bloem. Forced to reveal the secret she’s kept for years, Camille tells Verity the truth one day: Verity is still seeing ghosts, she just doesn’t know it. When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem-wife of a celebrated botanist-is interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but Camille won’t allow it.
In a manor by the sea, one sister is still cursed.ĭespite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia. Craig, about doomed love, menacing ambition, and the ghosts that haunt us forever. A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Erin A.
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