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The Hounding: A Novel
The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs.
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Did I love it? Yes. Would I have loved another 50 pages to flesh out the girls' characters a bit more (and just because I loved the writing and didn't want to leave the world so soon)? Yes. Do I understand the author's intentions in keeping it brief and keeping an element of mystery to the girls? Also yes. The dust jacket comment about this story being "The Virgin Suicides" meets "The Crucible" are absolutely true, and it was delicious...at times rage-inducing and other times detached, and brilliant in its way of once again telling a tale as old as time, that no species is as misunderstood to entitled men as the teenage girl.
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The ending was great, and NOT, I believe, literal, as I've seen some reviewers complain, but another vision from someone who stopped seeing them as the human beings they actually were.
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The ending was great, and NOT, I believe, literal, as I've seen some reviewers complain, but another vision from someone who stopped seeing them as the human beings they actually were.
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