T is for The

I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April.

Focusing on an A to Z of my TBR (to be read) list, each letter will have books starting with that letter on my list, a book I’ve read and reviewed (with the review!) and one of my books matching the letter with a link about more info about the book.

If you’d rather check out my folklore post for today, go here.

My TBR

About the Book I’ve Read

The Farmhouse by Chelsea Conradt

Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. Emily just moved in.

When Emily Hauk’s mother dies, it’s time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home. 

They should have asked why the farm was for sale. 

Three years ago a teenage girl went missing from the farm. Soon afterward, the girl’s mother mysteriously died. The deeper Emily digs the more stories she uncovers of women connected to her new home who’ve met their own dark ends.

With each passing day Emily’s sanctuary slips further away. The barn seems to move throughout her property as though chasing her. Her mother’s favorite music drifts across the cornfield. She swears she saw blood in one of the farmhand’s trucks. And the screams that wake her are not fox howls, no matter how many times her husband says they are. If she wants to claim this place as her own she’ll have to find out the truth before whatever watches from the cornfield takes her, too.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

A thriller with a supernatural angle that leans toward horror.

The chickens, named after the Golden Girls, were cute. The barn was absolutely creepy!

The men – the sheriff, doctor, lawyer, and her husband – mansplaining everything to her was infuriating. And her husband gaslighting her so much… It made her question herself, her sanity, everything. It was outrageous how women were treated by the men in their lives in this story.

This thriller has it all: murder, domestic violence, hidden bodies, violence towards women, loads of misogyny, a haunted barn, poisoning, dealing with the death of a loved one, pet murder, and the mystery of who’s behind it all.

How Em could be raised by a feminist and end up married to a controlling, gaslighting, only-believes-his-version-of-events type of man is beyond my understanding. Sure, he has his moments of being sweet, but all the gaslighting had me hope the ghost would choke him in his sleep… Yeah, he’s that bad.

I liked the librarian and would’ve liked to see her more involved in Em’s life.

The ending wrapped everything in a nice little bow… Maybe I wanted something more dramatic?

All-in-all a good book that had me wonder what was going to happen next, whodunit, and if the ghost would haunt anyone but Em and what it wanted from her.

Trigger warnings: murder, domestic violence, hidden bodies, violence towards women, loads of misogyny, poisoning, dealing with the death of a loved one, pet murder.

My Book

Twisted Tales (Faery Tales #3)

I hope you enjoyed this. For more books I’ve read and reviewed, check out either my Pinterest board about reviews or my Goodreads profile. Alternatively, you can check out my reviews on BookBub. Have you read any of the books? Loved or hated any of them?

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