I feel like for the past two weeks all I have read is holiday ARC’s so I needed a break and something a little more on tune with the spooky season reads, this book delivered!

If I had to just some of this book with a line, it would be “it was all about the vibes”. The vibes were just so good. Books like this make me love the gothic genre. I am a sucker for it, and always chasing the high that books like this one give me. There is just something about it that I love so much.

This book had such a great plot, and it had a nice amount of history in it. I have read enough history to know stories similar to this book played out in real life (okay not some aspects – it is fiction) but if you’ve read any books dealing with colorism then it will be familiar to the themes that this book is built on. I think that this book did the history justice.

There are so many lies in this book, so much deception and on so many levels. Don’t hear gothic and think boring, this book is anything but and will keep you engaged and interested from the start.

Thank you to @berkleypub the author, and @netgalley for this e-arc. All thoughts are my own