The Seventh Sister

Overall Rating: 5/5

The queen of darkness returns....

The Seventh Sister is dark, twisty and a true delight... it is a tale that has come out of the shadows... sure to haunt you in the dead of night, or keep you up long after you're supposed to be in bed...brought to a terrifying reality by Kurtagich's talented voice... from its eerie, creepy beginning to its last lingering soft whispers, this is a world where fear holds an iron fist, and the truth may not be reality...for who knows what truly lingers in the dak after all...

Join the Ward sisters on their tale of loss and grief, as tragedy has struck and they journey back to Beltane, to live with their grandmother in a hopefully calmer life... except tragedy strikes once more before the girls settle down, and now an Old God demands appeasement...and unfortunately the Ward sisters are thrown once more into chaos, and a world of dark sacrifice, and grisly deaths in the name of this "Forgotten God of the Wood". Once more, I found myself enraptured by Kurtagich's talent, drawn into the dark (and yet deliciously disturbing) world that she has made...and how she is able to blend something so simple into something that is utterly terrifying... and yet also being able to blend these horrific elements into something more.

For the Seventh Sister is not just a tale to cater to the dark but caters to the side that most of us keep buried... it explores a side that many of us might feel ashamed of or only talk about to those that we trust the most. It reminds us that sometimes, while we may be feeling at our lowest and the universe seems to be throwing us all the signs that we might not belong, to keep going. Not only that, but it allows us to explore how it can change someone, and how it can also fracture to cause someone to become a new person from who they were before.

This was a truly delicious, dark, twisty, and grisly novel, akin to authors like Ava Reid or T. Kingfisher. It is an eerie masterpiece that will linger to haunt you long after you have finished it, and something that I will be recommending to all who enjoy a beautifully dark, somewhat grotesque, somewhat fantastical read.