Haunting, thought provoking, heartbreaking. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a story of two sisters and their elderly uncle living together after the unsolved poisoning of the rest of the Blackwood’s immediate family. Six years later, the villagers never miss a chance to taunt Merricat when they see her, due to her older sister Constance’s assumed guilt in the crime. How far will this go? Who poisoned the dead Blackwoods?

This is a short read, so I don’t want to give too much away but I cannot get this story out of my head. Mob mentality turned sinister is such an eerie yet fascinating concept to me (think the movie Mother!—-AAH), and it was done so well here. Violation, gaslighting, greed, TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE mentality that the Blackwood’s endured made me want to pluck these characters from their environment and into safety. Eloquent prose, in true Jackson style. That’s all I’m going to say about this, PLZ READ!