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Carmilla
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Pushkin Press. Teenager Laura lives with her father when a woman shows up with her daughter and asks the father to look after the daughter as she has urgent business that requires heavy travel. Apparently the daughter is not well enough to travel and so Laura’s father agrees to look after her. Not long after, Laura suffers a mysterious illness. This is not much more than a novella and it’s not bad but it’s definitely not a page-turner. My main interest is its historical value within the literature world as it’s not a book I have been aware of before now. There’s a steady narrative…
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Winterly
Winterly: Dark Creatures Book One by Jeanine Croft It’s while Emma Rose is in London that Markus Winterly comes to her aid one night and she is both entranced and afraid. Winterly invites Emma and her sister to stay with him and attend a ball. It’s while at Winterthurse that Emma falls further under Winterly’s spell and she finds herself making a bargain with him to keep her sister Milli safe from harm. While she is afraid, it’s not so much of Markus as the darkness she fears that is inside her. I will say from the outset this is a pretty complicated book. It’s long and it goes on…