Review of the Poison Thread by Laura Purcell
Laura Purcell is an writer who is on auto-purchase for me. I read The Silent Companions last year and vicious head over heels for her writing! I devoured The Silent Companions in days and lost sleep not merely from staying upwards reading but from the creep cistron equally well! Such an incredible book.
I was thrilled to meet that she had a new volume coming out, and intact, I sent off to the Uk to have this one delivered considering I loved the cover so much and couldn't expect for her latest novel! I accept had my eye on this book for months and couldn't look to become my easily on it. It sounds delightfully creepy and gothic!
Imagine my fan girl moment when I was approached to read this book early on. I couldn't wait t showtime reading and in fact, put everything else aside so that I could read this 1 get-go! Can yous say, excited much?
Summary
A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread take the power to kill
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and cute. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and pending trial for murder.
When Dorothea'due south charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison house, she is delighted past the gamble to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can bandage a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with some other foreign idea: that information technology is possible to impale with a needle and thread–considering Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.
The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations–of bitterness and expose, of death and dresses–will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the ability of redemption. Tin can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer? The Poisonous substance Thread is a spine-tingling, sinister read about the evil that lurks backside the facade of innocence (summary from Goodreads).
Review
As before long as I started this book, I knew I was reading something special. I was drawn in immediately and curious well-nigh this odd story. It often kept me upwards at night and I would find my mind drifting back to this volume throughout the day or while I was reading something else.
The book is told past two women, Ruth and Dotty. One is a murderer and 1 is a girl there to save souls—oh and explore phrenology. Both have things that drew me in as a reader. Ruth for obvious reasons as the murderer or mad adult female, and Dotty because she seemed then odd and macabre. This is a book who I tin can run across Tim Burton making a picture show of—he does dark, odd, and macabre and then well.
Most of the chapters alternate between the women and I loved how that pushed the story forward and made me want to keep reading. I constantly kept thinking that I would just finish that detail chapter and then information technology would leave me hanging and I would quickly try to read the next affiliate to become dorsum to the character who left me hanging. It was brilliant and fast paced.
In that location has been a huge hype leading upwards to this volume. The Silent Companions was marvelous and I know that a lot of fans (like myself) have eagerly been waiting for this volume to release, to see if it compares with The Silent Companions. For me personally, I liked The Silent Companions better. I thought it had a little more atmosphere and a picayune more horror than this one. However, but this ane was definitely nighttime and agonizing, just not in the aforementioned way that The Silent Companions was.
However, this book met every one of my expectations. I loved all the gothic vibes I was getting in this book and I loved the quirky and odd characters, and I had many a nights when I was sitting upward thinking about this book. With the Silent Companions I was more than scared, with this volume I was more disturbed. If yous dear gothic fiction, especially Victorian era gothic fiction, like I do, then this is your book and author. Purcell did an outstanding job and I tin can't expect to read more books by her in the hereafter. Such a stand out author with a chilling signature style!
Volume Info and Rating
Paperback, 368 pages
Expected publication: June 18th 2019 past Penguin Books (offset published September 20th 2018)
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