Little Eve

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Even though this group is a real "family," that doesn't stop the children from competing among themselves for attention and that hard-won favor.

Uncle believes that a great sea snake will arise from the ocean and change the world, and in typical cult leader fashion, he’s grooming his “family” members to go along with him, do his bidding, and most of all, suffer for the cause. Dinah fights for her life, lying on the floor, one of her eyes is scratched and Eve is nowhere to be seen. But psych the cosmic-horror tropes I was expecting, given that this is a story about a cult whose organizing principle is the end of the world, "cleansed" by sea-serpent, were absent.

I feel like I need to set some reader expectations here--I read this over a Friday-Sunday time period. Most of the novel is told from the first-person perspectives of Dinah and Evelyn, allowing us to unravel the beliefs and rituals of their cult while understanding the events leading to this appalling mass murder. Any story dealing with cults turns out to be horribly fascinating, and this one sounds no different: I believe I will need a special frame of mind to sit down with this one, but I’m also sure it will prove an engrossing read. Ese día el joven Jamie MacRaith tiene un pedido que acercar a Altnaharra, esa fortaleza apartada en una isla escocesa donde viven los "niños" con su "tío". I'm a sucker for this sort of cold, misty seaside setting in gothic tales and Little Eve delivers that in spades with its melancholy descriptions and isolated, claustrophobic feeling.

A través de la narración de Evelyn vamos conociendo como era la vida de esos niños en Altnaharra, a manos de su "tío". They worship snakes, and through a ritual of starvation and cleansings, pray for the day when a giant snake will rise from the sea. I read and enjoyed both of award’s prior works, The Last House on Needless Streer and Sundial so I was very excited to read Little Eve.Now, I don't mind a long chapter here and there, but it was like trying to pack 3 years of content into one chapter. It is a haunting and claustrophobic tale of delusion, a dark labyrinth with unexpected turns and a chilling atmosphere of fear and paranoia throughout. I became completely invested in the characters, and even though I knew the ending – because the book starts with the ending – I somehow still found myself hoping that things would work out, that something would make it better, and that the beginning was a misdirection. Comps: Sounds weird but this is like the anti-version (the total opposite mood) of I Capture the Castle. Catriona Ward has a gift for creating characters who are bound together in awful ways, but who love each other fiercely despite the horrible things they do to each other.

The other books he had out on loan from the travelling library on that January day were The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and an instruction manual for building a carburettor engine. Entremezclados, encontraremos algunos capítulos situados con bastante posterioridad a los hechos, en 1931, para terminar la novela en 1946. Thank you to Macmillan-Tor/Forge, Tor Nightfire and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Long intervals of the book are narrated mostly by the one implicated as the killer, "Little Eve" or Evelyn, Dinah (the survivor), or Inspector Black.Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel • A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick! A pesar del tema religioso que aborda no ahonda en detalles pesados o que no se entiendan, aunque sí tiene una gran parte onírica en forma de pesadillas y alucinaciones, solo nos muestra la forma que tienen ellos de ver e interpretar el mundo que les rodea. Whilst Eve is embedded in the situation, and it seems normal to her, as a reader you become gradually more aware of the situation little by little, and become more and more horrified by the realities of it. I'd also compare it to Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg and The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz, both of which focus on girls who have been so thoroughly assimilated into cultlike communities that they refuse to reject their practices.

by the time i reached the big "reveal" at the end of the book, i was already feeling so detached from the characters that i found the climax incredibly underwhelming. He buttered two slabs of white bread and sprinkled them with sugar before wrapping them carefully in wax paper and slipping them into his jacket pocket for later. Eve hopes to take John’s place as the ‘Adder’, the leader of their group, and this drives her through the book.Ward spins a twisty mystery that spans the years immediately preceding the murders through decades following the event, following both Eve’s descent into darkness and Dinah’s struggle to heal in its aftermath. The synopsis sounded just as WTF as I would expect and the story itself didn't disappoint in that regard. This horror-lite, gothic-heavy novel from Catriona Ward made me wonder if I was reading a book from an entirely different author.