Butcherbird

Yay, New Zealand horror! Especially New Zealand horror with magpies and the most stylish cover ever. I actually reviewed this book for Strange Horizons - will link the review here when it comes out - but I've been a bit behind updating my Goodreads reads, if that makes sense, so leaving a few short......more

Butcherbird is a gripping, creepy, and yet darkly funny story of family secrets, possession, magpies, and familial love and distance. It's fast-paced and unnerving, unfolding the secrets of a woman who lost her family as a child, and her elderly grandmother. I am glad I already stopped cooking meat l......more

Read an eARC from the publisher Content warning: Arson, cancer, death of immediate family, self-disembowelment, alcoholism, murder, violence against birds Jena Benedict returns to her family’s farm twenty years after a tragic fire which claimed the lives of her parents and her siblings. Her grandmothe......more

2.5 stars. It wasn’t a terrible book but had some plot holes that were hard to look past.......more

Eldritch horror with demonic possession and druidic Grandmothers. And birds.......more