This Cursed House
by Del Sandeen
This Cursed House is a grippy Southern gothic with horror elements. In 1960s Chicago, Jemma, a young black woman with a special ability to see spirits, escapes her broken life to work for a New Orleans family for a substantial salary to start over.
But when she arrives, she finds out that her ‘position’ is nebulous and that the Duchy family has brought her to their house hoping she can break the family’s curse which doesn’t allow them to leave—and kills someone every year.
The secrets unfold slowly keeping the pages turning as the stunning and shocking—and sinister reveals are made.
It’s hard not to give spoilers as there are so many! But readers will enjoy the rollout of the family history from all the angles and the reveals of the mysterious past as Jemma has to embrace her gift and her past while learning about herself and her own family’s history. Always a fan of a Gothic, I loved the setting of this book, and the time period which is of change in itself.
Lovely writing.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for allowing me to read this advanced copy for an unbiased book review
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