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Okay, I absolutely loved this book! I went in with zero expectations and it blew me away! A dark fairy tale retelling was excellent writing and interesting characters! 💕📚

Not for me. I found it uneven and repetitive and walked the wrong side of the line in balancing those unfamiliar with Rebecca and those who love it. Also, the chapters from The Wife were so bad. Like so, so bad.

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November 2025 will now be known as the month I first read We Have Always Lived in the Castle!
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I was disappointed with this month‘s Aardvark selections and was going to skip. Tracy‘s review of the tagged book had me curious, but leery. Then I saw that Scott said it was one of his favorites this year and how am I supposed to resist that? I added a book that I didn‘t pick up in July (you know, when I was trying to be good and only pick one).

My December Aardvark box. The tagged book is supposed to be a signed copy. I am having second thoughts about Itch, but it does sound interesting. #aardvarkbookclub

This book was something…all sorts of wrong—in the best sort of Victorian horror ways—and the kind of story that is hard to put down even as you read it through your fingers with a mix of horrified fascination and “eewwww, don‘t get too close because…gross.” There‘s a nanny, a creepy house with even creepier owners & a pair of kids running around underfoot. There‘s also revenge, murder, & horror. This book may not be for everyone but I enjoyed it.

I listened to Titus Groan several years ago and did not especially enjoy it, so it‘s taken me a long time to try this second book. Gormenghast Castle is a world of its own peopled with truly interesting characters. I enjoyed this book more than the first, but it‘s still a slow moving story where I kept waiting for more to happen.

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I didn‘t know the second “e” was silent

“Several hundred boats joined the cortège of the river, and almost the entire town participated in the funeral procession that followed the coffin, which was carried by eight sea-captains, up the steps to the grave…. Lucy herself, pleaded to attend the funeral, otherwise I would not have liked to suggest it, fearing it would upset her, and she also wished us to sit on our usual bench and…⬇️

The black hound that jumped from the Demeter and ran through the Whitby Cemetery

The Demeter. From the log-book of the Schooner Demeter (Varna to Whitby).