A hauntingly atmospheric and beautifully written read! Sarah McCarry has a way of pulling you into a story and not letting go. I couldn’t put it down!

Someone at Netgalley was looking out for me personally by adding this to Read Now.

This book had so many things I love. Lesbians, vampires, murder investigations, vengeance, concerningly intense female friendships, I could go on.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC!

OMG I am so glad this was a READ NOW book. This was absolutely CHEFS KISS! This had it all. Vampires, murder, friendships. All of the above. Sarah McCarry is now on my auto buy list for sure!

This book. I hope it gets all the hype that the fictional Possession Island novel got.

It’s lush and lyrical and devastating in the best way. I found myself reading it slowly because I didn’t want it to end. I wanted to live on this dense, stormy island in the Pacific Northwest- to be possessed by it.

It’a a murder mystery but really, it’s a meditation on isolation and girlhood, sapphic longing, fraught parental relationships, sibling loyalty and the way the world seeks to eat women and girls alive unless they bite back.

It’s also very meta with themes from the fictional book taking place in the lives of our characters and unfurls the story from the viewpoints of Angela, Sally and Mo with chapters from the fictional eponymous novel interwoven throughout.

I’ve never read anything like it and I find myself becoming obsessed with it just like our protagonists did and it is truly, delicious.

Infinite thanks to Netgalley, Sarah McCarry, Saturday Books and Macmillan publishing for the ARC.