The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
- Crafty Goblin
- Mar 13
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 16
THE TWISTED ONES
Author : T. Kingfisher
Publisher : Gallery Books
Released : October 1, 2019
Page count : 385
Format : Digital
Genre : Horror, fiction, Thriller, Paranormal
Content warnings : Body horror, Animal death, Death, weird pregnancy, Fire injury, Injury detail
Source : Libby
Representation : N/A
Part of a Series : No
★★★★★ — Oh, a new favorite!
Quote from the book:
“We were making jokes. We were making jokes while, in the back of my mind, a man fell down with a makeshift spear through his chest, blood on white skin. We were making jokes while unspeakable things chased us in the dark. Maybe that’s why we were making jokes.”
Pros: Funny witty and scary. An easy goosebumps read.
Cons: Don’t read alone in the dark.
Summary :
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
My Thoughts on this Book :
I discovered T. Kingfisher's work with this book. I have so much fun reading this during my spooky season last October. It's an easy and fast read but with a good plot and a great character development. Something that I love with T. Kingfisher, whatever books I read from her, it's the characters (at least for her horror books, I didn't read her YA fantasy and kid books). Especially in this one. Mouse is my favorite of their character, she's witty, easy going, the weirdo introvert bookish type (yeah I can relate here that's why I rooted for her easily), curious and funny. Really lovable. I loved pretty much all the characters in this books especially.
I'm not easily freaked out, that's why I like horror reads so much, it's a challenge to find reads that can make me scare jump and if there is those witty characters typical from horror books, even better. Here you got it. I made the stupid mistake to read that alone in the dark when I was chilling for a weekend in an Airbnb pretty remote in the wood in Bulgaria and, damn, I jumped at every noise.
Not the most scary book I read, but the kind which built your paranoia and the atmosphere to make you jump even when it wasn't attended and then makes you laugh at yourself (but with unease still). One of my favorite books so far in the genre.
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