That’s why I do it myself.” And the interaction that follows felt intimate and honest. The line “The servants here hardly know what to do with our hair. Henderson managed to avoid this, even with a scene where Marion and Irene discuss hair care for their hair types. Many times, a book with so many named characters seems to drop the ball on the interactions with one another being unique and noticeably different. This writing allows you to wonder at even the side characters and what brought them to the House of Hunger.

The characters in this book were interesting, each of them with full personalities and even backstories that were well hinted at. The first half did have me feeling very “Not sure what’s going on but the vibes are good enough to keep reading.” And I’m glad I kept reading because it was worth it.

There was just enough mystery to keep me on the edge of my seat and intrigued. Alexis Henderson has done an incredible job of merging both the erotic, velvet environment of gothic writing and the nerve-wracking, bloody terror of horror. House of Hunger is the sapphic, bloody, gothic horror of my dreams. “In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed.” She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home–and fast–or its halls will soon become her grave.Ĭharacters: 8 | Atmosphere: 10 | Writing: 9 | Plot: 7 | Intrigue: 10 | Logic: 9 | Enjoyment: 10 But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery–and at the center of it all is _her_.Ĭountess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. Though she knows little about the far north–where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service–Marion applies to the position. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Girls of weak will need not apply.Ī young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. WANTED – Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Marion decides to become a bloodmaiden after years of poverty, but she never could imagine what was in store for her.Īll quotes are from an advanced reader copy, and may or may not reflect the published edition.

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson is a new, sapphic horror from the author.

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