Black Sheep
A New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep.
Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.
When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep.
Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.
When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.
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I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. I figured it out right away and I felt like the main character was soooo whiny. It was hard to get through.
3.5 stars
I really didn't know what I was getting myself into with this book.... but it was good!
Definitely not for everyone.
Warning: I did not know what it was about before reading so please read.... it's about a girl whose family heads a satanist cult that she runs away from and has topics relating to drug abuse, religious trauma, violence, possible PTSD?? parental and familial neglect/abuse. It's not a light read.
I really didn't know what I was getting myself into with this book.... but it was good!
Definitely not for everyone.
Warning: I did not know what it was about before reading so please read.... it's about a girl whose family heads a satanist cult that she runs away from and has topics relating to drug abuse, religious trauma, violence, possible PTSD?? parental and familial neglect/abuse. It's not a light read.
I liked this one! It was a little more wild than I was expecting, but I've never read something that made me laugh, cringe, and stop with a "...huh.." all in one book.
I really enjoyed this story. I felt it was predictable after a certain point but the overall themes of how our family shouldn’t define us was good and I felt this story was a very clever way to tell it. Sometimes we are better off escaping and going back isn’t alway a revelation we want to experience.
This book had some funny moments, but overall was pretty predictable. All the characters had either no personality or were just kind of unlikeably annoying.
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