I really enjoyed this book! If you're a fan of the more macabre, religion, historic depravity stuff like me, you will really dig it. It progresses well, the twists and turns all linking back to each other but not in an overly confusing way. If you liked the film The VVitch, you'll like this.

Really enjoyed this book, a good look into the less talked about societal expectations of women. I have no plans of becoming a mother myself, as I fear I would be similar to Leda, perhaps worse. These things are taboo to think of, let alone say, for women all the way up to the recent generations. It's made me grateful to be able to make this choice to stay childfree and unmarried. The quality of the writing is excellent!

Do rich people really fly this much? It was annoying me how many planes these people took, like catching the bus! The writing felt incredibly rushed, and the characters are mostly dislikeable. I am always excited when I find that a book I blindly picked has some queer rep in it, but the homosexuality in this felt... disrespectful. It was treated like a curse the entire time. A shame, as I recognised the author from another book that I enjoyed well enough, but now I don't think I'll be picking up another.

I see what it was going for, and I appreciated all the campy fun of referring to well known slasher killer franchises, but something prevented me from getting sucked in to this book. I think there was too many big revelation moments just for the sake of plot twists maybe. Would be a good Halloween time read with all your decorations up and trick or treaters at the door

Like most young girls with a horse fixation, I read this back when I was a kid. Back then, it was just a horsey book, granted one that was a little macabre and was perhaps our first glimpse into tragedy. I picked it up again today as a nostalgia read, and steeled myself for some out dated opinions from 1800s Britain. I was pleasantly surprised however to find that it did very little in that regard! If anything, it is quite liberal and forward thinking for it's time. There is of course a strong purpose of animal activism, but I was surprised to find other issues being addressed in there too, ones that we are still facing to this day. Class oppression, the bystander effect, capitalism as whole... There's even a part which made me think of the unfairness of next day delivery packages and what that's doing to the rest of the market (The butchers horses, for anyone wondering)! I truly believe this book has helped to increase horse welfare around that world, and maybe even human welfare too.

The actual writing is talented, and reminds me of the old books I would read as a kid. Definitely dated though, it makes an uncomfortable read when it comes to women and literally any other race, even down to the name of a dog. It also felt like less of a dogs perspective and more of a man who thinks he's an alpha wolf. If Jack London was alive this day, he would be a wolf fursona for sure.