Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher💙📚
Jodi Taylor #BookRecommendation
This is another of T Kingfisher’s belting gothic horror stories.
The year is 1899 and this is the story of Sonia Wilson, a young scientific illustrator, desperate for a job – any job – after her father’s death leaves her penniless.
Arriving in North Carolina, she takes up a position with the slightly sinister Dr Halder, who hires her to illustrate his enormous collection of, quite frankly, even more sinister insects.
This is a T Kingfisher book, so obviously, it’s not long before strange things begin to happen. A sinister squirrel watches her through a window. An apparently insane possum that knows how to open doors. What horror is affecting the animals around this remote part of the state?
And more importantly, what happened to her predecessor, who also happened to be the doctor’s wife? Their marriage collapsed, but did she really manage to get away from her unpleasant husband?
And what exactly is a blood thief?
Actually, I should probably say that if you’re not into parasitic maggots, then this is not the book for you. T Kingfisher gives us moments of genuine horror. The sinister hut – its mysterious occupant hovering between life and death … aaaghhh!
I honestly couldn’t put it down and sat up late – really late – to finish it. Highly recommended if you like having the socks scared off you on nearly every page.
And don’t forget – Daggerbound, the next book in her Swordheart series will be along soon.
Love T kingfisher! And I'm incredibly grateful to her/ them for listing their books by category on their website. You know young adult, horror, fantasy, Etc. Because I can't do horror, my imagination is already way way too active.
I end up doing things like being afraid to get out of the car in my very own, very safe garage because my mind wandered and i had suddenly convinced that it wasn't safe. I.e., the coyotes near the house were howling at the moon. (These are not packs of vicious rural coyotes. I live in a city. These are coyotes that are probably telling one another to watch out for the marauding city raccoons.. Now they are vicious come to think of it Anyway...) A group of friends and i had been having a big screen TV movie fest of Charlaine Harris's True Blood series.
I had listen to the books... all of them.... and enjoyed them, but because my mind had all these vivid pictures in it from the TV series and the coyotes were howling I had to convince myself that they were coyotes not werewolves and I could get out of the car and go into the house without being Savaged and even if they were Supernatural vicious beasts of some sort, being in the car was not going to help me at all....
hi jodi!! would mean the world if you checked out my murder mystery!! :)