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T. Kingfisher: The Twisted Ones (Hardcover, 2019, Saga Press) 4 stars

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she …

Review of 'The Twisted Ones' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A supernatural folk horror story infused with a consistent and mostly welcome line of humor all throughout, which mostly comes through in the main character's voice (it's a first person novel and told as a recollection of said supernatural events, so there's a lot of tangents and side-thoughts and editorialization in the middle of the narration).

The horror elements worked well for me; every threat is foreboding and creepy and when fully revealed the horror doesn't lose its power thanks to the author's descriptions and the MC's narration. It's when things kick into high gear in the last fifth or so of the book that I thought it lost some of its horror in exchange for action-y sequences that let me down a bit.