All my extra reading this month was linked this year’s RIP Reading Challenge, with each book offering its own unique brand of unease, from surreal horror to gothic atmosphere, but all exploring obsession, memory, and the ways our pasts haunt us. Mona Awad’s Rouge is a strange and unsettling meditation on beauty, grief, and the…|
I dithered about reading Andrew Michael Hurley’s Saltwash, put off by his reputation for writing folk horror, not a genre I’m attracted to, but I liked its premise so decided to take the plunge, helped along by a few NetGalley reviews by fans disappointed by its lack of menace. Tom and Oliver have been matched […] The post Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley: ‘Tide in, tide out. All’s forgotten’ appeared first on A Life in Books.| A Life in Books