Starling House

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This highlights the need for effective management and sustainable solutions, balancing human activities, conservation, and our spiritual connection to nature for harmony. Starling House makes for an impressive third character. I love this trend of houses with feelings, though I have seen this handled much better in other fantasy novels.

There is an excellent use of metaphors and imagery to enhance the plot. The author’s vocabulary had impressed me in her debut novel, and her prowess with words is visible in this one as well.Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent, and Starling House, with its gentle reassurances of the homes we make and the love we deserve, is more than satisfying. It’s pure loveliness in book form." — Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Starling House includes a trope, or maybe it's more accurate to call it a theme, that I have seen pop up recently in quite a few other novels. Most memorably, Hide, These Fleeting Shadows and Episode Thirteen.

Meet the latest heir of the house: young Arthur, leading a secluded life, perceived as callous, indifferent to the deaths of his own parents. Enter Opal, a 26-year-old orphan, working odd jobs and resorting to theft to pay her brother Jasper's art academy tuition. Drawn to the haunted house as if it were a living entity, Opal dreams of it calling her. Determined to break through Arthur's barriers, she applies for a job as a cleaner, unaware that this house holds the key to the secrets of her own life. As she unravels the sinister truths hidden within, she discovers Arthur is not just the heir but the guardian trapped in the house. Their connection may unleash something dangerous, not only endangering the lives of the townsfolk but transporting them to a place they never intended to face.Harrow's mash-up of twisted fairy tales and Southern gothic fiction is a haunting story of longing, lies, and generational curses." ― Library Journal (starred review) The story involves a lot of history of the house, the property, the Starling family, as well as the growing relationship between Opal and Arthur. I told Mom about the dreams once. She laughed. “If I’d read that damn book as many times as you, I’d have nightmares, too.”