NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club October '23 Pick)
Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen....
Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago.
All she left behind were dark rumors—and her home. Everyone agrees that it's best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway.
I should be scared, but in the dream I don't hesitate.
Opal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. When she gets the chance to step inside Starling House—and make some extra cash for her brother's escape fund—she can't resist.
But sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House, and Arthur's own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around.
In my dream, I'm home.
And now she'll have to fight.
Welcome to Starling House: enter, if you dare.
A Book of the Month Club Pick
An October 2023 Indie Next Pick
A LibraryReads October 2023 Hall of Fame Pick
Apple, Best Books of October
EW.com, Fall Book Must Reads 2023
Washington Post, Noteworthy Books for October
Paste Magazine, The Must-Read Fantasy Books of Fall 2023
PopSugar Best New Fantasy Books of 2023
BookPage, Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023
Observer, Must-Read Books of Fall 2023
Polygon, 12 Best New SFF for the Fall
LitHub, October's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Bookish, October's Most-Anticipated Books
Gizmodo, October's Huge List of New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
3 of 6 copies available
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250882783
- File size: 358176 KB
- Duration: 12:26:11
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- English
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Starred review from December 1, 2023
Harrow's (A Mirror Mended) eerie new novel is a genre-bending Southern gothic set in a small Kentucky town that's haunted by its past. Bad luck seems to follow Opal's family. Since their mother's accidental death, Opal and her brother have been on their own. When an opportunity to earn extra income arises at the mysterious, decaying mansion known as Starling House, Opal jumps at the chance, despite receiving dire warnings to stay away. Her new employer, Arthur Starling, is a lonely, brooding man, and the two quickly develop a complicated love-hate relationship. As Opal becomes more attached to Starling House and ominous forces threaten the town, she and Arthur must examine their painful pasts to save their futures. Natalie Naudus narrates wonderfully, maintaining a perfect tempo and performing a range of character voices and raw emotions. VERDICT Harrow weaves an intricately plotted gothic fairy tale featuring emotionally complex characters, brought to life through Naudus's skillful narration. Fans of T. Kingfisher's gothic fiction, dark academia like Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House, and grim fairy tales in the vein of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber will find themselves right at home.--Meghan Bouffard
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