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Part of me really enjoyed the story. Part of me didn‘t me. While it was classified as a “horror/historical fiction I didn‘t find it as scary/gory as a horror but also found it too much in the present day to really be a historical fiction. Overall I really liked the story, I just didn‘t love it. 4 out of 5 stars.

I thought this was going to be more horror ghosts. But totally took a different turn. I really enjoyed the book. It was a good book for being the authors first novel. Looking forward to more works from this author.

This book was a horror novel that‘s for sure. A southern gothic ghost story that takes place on a plantation that the former enslaved people haunt.
There was love and drama and mostly a lot of gross horrific things remembered.

Mira is heading back to the segregated town she left to attend her childhood friend's wedding. However she is not happy that the wedding is being held at a newly renovated plantation, and neither are the ghosts that haunt it. This was kind of slow and redundant in the first part. Took too long to get where it was going, but the haunting scenes were really good/horrific, very powerful. #bhm #horror

This was really good! I wish I hadn‘t been so tired when reading it.. my baby is going through a sleep regression 😬 so I feel like there is more to get out of it.

This book was honestly so good! The audio was incredible. I‘m usually a 1.3x speed, but for this I listed at the normal 1x speed. It was that good. I was just lost in the voice. *content warning for racism and some serious torture scenes near the end.

I think this was a recommendation from All the Backlist podcast, but I am diving in today. Looks like I‘ll have good reading weather with Nicole hitting Florida tonight.

Loved this book about how the injustices of the past still haunt our present!

#DayOne📖

I think McQueen has more than decent writing chops. However, I think the the construction of this story needed work. This is about a Black woman named Mira who is going to her white friend, Celine‘s wedding which is being held at a plantation house where all kinds of horrors were done to slaves. McQueen has very valid things to say about allyship and the through line of slavery into the present. The story just didn‘t work for me. Thanks Jenni 👇🏼

well damn, that was intense.

Thanks for the tags, Cassie and Andrew. I‘m hoping to finish this one up this weekend. Pretty decent so far.

A punch in the face

Thank you thank you thank you @LeahBergen for my #littleChristmasswap (True confession I opened it early and gobbled up the book!) Earl very much appreciated the bookmark with the yummy-looking ribbon and beautiful kitty!

When I closed this book, the only word that came to mind was powerful. It made me uncomfortable but in a necessary way. Mira is a Black woman who returns to her hometown for the wedding of her white childhood best friend Celine. Celine's wedding is to take place on a restored "working" plantation. As the ghosts of the past & the slaves tortured on the grounds return. Mira & Celine will confront the past in all of it's horror. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mira left Kipsen years ago with no intention of returning. When her childhood friend invites her to Celine's wedding, she goes despite misgivings. The wedding is to be held at the recently restored & renovated Woodsman Plantation, now a tourist attraction with antebellum reenactments & mostly black staff. The plantation is also rumored to be haunted by the slaves who were tortured and killed there. A good mix of horror & reckoning with the past.

The book arrived today @sprainedbrain 😎

One of these rounds, I hope to pick a phenomenal book that everyone will love for #LMPBC… but I fear this will not be that round. 😆

I have mixed feelings about this book, but it‘s just mainly not what I had hoped/thought it would be. Between a pick and a so-so for me, but crossing my fingers that it will work for the rest of #GroupH.

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

This book is on the way to you, Karen!

@Annie1215 I LOVE my #HauntedHollowSwap! 🖤

Thank you so much for these books I‘ve been itching to buy for myself (haha!) Love the socks, the mug, of course the chocolate, and the pins are so awesome I‘m going to do another post to show them up close.

Again, thank you so much for the thoughtful gifts! And thank you, @wanderinglynn for running such a great swap. 🎃🖤👻

I was not expecting a ghost story. A black woman returns to the home of her youth to attend a white childhood friend‘s plantation wedding. There‘s a lot going on in this book, and there are interesting characters. Some parts were really good and others were a bit of a stretch. Overall, it wasn‘t bad and the ending was not what it seemed at first glance.

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Excellent read! I loved the backstory in this book, and although the end wasn't the best, the rest of the read more than makes up for it.

McQueen has well developed characters with complex personalities and a small town full of secrets.

I'd love to read more by this author in the future.

Finished The Ex Hex and now onto this! Starting off spooktober right! 👻

An eerie and gripping horror story, steeped in history and told in a direct and affecting way. Highly recommended! #horror

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