Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. 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.Īlone 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. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. I don’t think I’ll return to the Kingfisher well and draw from it again, for fear of risking reading the same novel a third time.When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. Overall, I’ll give it 2 deer skulls out of 5. But to not do that and pretend to have written another distinct story? It rubbed me the wrong way. These two novels were so closely entwined, Kingfisher should have leaned into the similarities and just connected the two. They were written entirely interchangeably, with very similar mannerisms and ways of speaking. I would have preferred if ‘Carrot’ (the young women in The Hollow Places) and ‘Mouse’ (the young women in The Twisted Ones) were, in fact, the same character. But it was such a similar story in some many ways that it felt… lazy. I mean, obviously I liked The Hollow Places enough to immediately seek out another Kingfisher novel to read. That doesn’t necessarily make The Twisted Ones bad. Kingfisher novel I read right before The Twisted Ones, using exactly the same plot summary. The trouble is… I could also explain The Hollow Places, the other T. Eventually, she travels to a fantastical world accompanied by a sassy, fishnet wearing side kick, gets stuck there for a time, and must find a way to return to life in the Real World. She befriends a zany local barista as the mystery at the heart of the magic unfurls. In moving, she is thrown into a world of magical intrigue. In reviewing The Twisted Ones, I would be correct in summarising the plot as such:Ī young women with a silly nickname, recently single, upends her life and moves to a kooky new location to assist a family member in need.
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