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Gothic horror
5 stars!
"How horrifying. Is there anything more dangerous to a woman than to be beautiful when weeping?"
When I saw this book was written by a Dutch author and set in the Netherlands I was extra excited, because that's where I come from!
This book was set in 1887 and it perfectly describes the gruesome and difficult times of life as a woman in the Netherlands with a bit of a fantasy twist!
We follow the twins Sarah and Lucy. Sarah has peculiar interests for a woman at that time. She likes science, animals, plants and mysteries. When they find a bog body at Zwartwater the estate her and her husband, Michael, live at, she wants to be apart of every step of investigating the body together with her husband and his best friend who is a doctor. After dissecting the body Sarah starts to show weird signs, falls ill and writes unhinged letters to her sister Lucy.
Lucy decides to go visit her sister at Zwartwater to take care of her. Sarah starts acting weirder and weirder, is barely eating anymore and is showing signs of hysteria.
Will they find out who the body in the bog is? Will they discover what changed the behaviour of Sarah, and how to save her? While navigating the different romantic relationships?
This book is gothic horror, has some dark and very descriptive scenes. But on the other hand it also describes the difficult times for women during that age, and the unconditional love of twin sisters beautifully.
"How horrifying. Is there anything more dangerous to a woman than to be beautiful when weeping?"
When I saw this book was written by a Dutch author and set in the Netherlands I was extra excited, because that's where I come from!
This book was set in 1887 and it perfectly describes the gruesome and difficult times of life as a woman in the Netherlands with a bit of a fantasy twist!
We follow the twins Sarah and Lucy. Sarah has peculiar interests for a woman at that time. She likes science, animals, plants and mysteries. When they find a bog body at Zwartwater the estate her and her husband, Michael, live at, she wants to be apart of every step of investigating the body together with her husband and his best friend who is a doctor. After dissecting the body Sarah starts to show weird signs, falls ill and writes unhinged letters to her sister Lucy.
Lucy decides to go visit her sister at Zwartwater to take care of her. Sarah starts acting weirder and weirder, is barely eating anymore and is showing signs of hysteria.
Will they find out who the body in the bog is? Will they discover what changed the behaviour of Sarah, and how to save her? While navigating the different romantic relationships?
This book is gothic horror, has some dark and very descriptive scenes. But on the other hand it also describes the difficult times for women during that age, and the unconditional love of twin sisters beautifully.
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