Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
A creepy house sits at a crossroads in the small town of Eden, Kentucky. The town is known only for the legend of E. Starling, a reclusive 19th century author/illustrator who wrote “Underland” and then disappeared.
Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. The town thinks it best to let the property and its last heir Arthur Starling, just waste away.
Opal, needs a job and wants to find a way for here brother to leave the shackles of the town of Eden.
Starling House becomes a daunting hazard to Opal as it starts to feel like home, something she has never had.
Together Opal and Arhtur have to dig up the past and face long buried secrets, while confronting their own nightmares to save the fate of the town. Opal wants a home and she has to fight to keep it.
This was a bizarre story, a little long winded. All of the individual elements are great. Nothing seemed as developed as it should or could have been. The prose was moody and not cohesive. The description and character given to the house was the best developed part. The back history was not cohesive or engaging to me as a reader. I wanted it to connect more to the town but I just didn’t get that.
I did enjoy it but I didn’t love it. It was interesting but not outstanding. 3/5⭐
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