Host by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - 2 stars
Inferno by Laura Shepard-Robinson - 3 stars
The Old Play by Andrew Michael Hurley - 2.5 stars, possible 3 stars if I didn't fall asleep multiple times
A Double Thread by Imogen Hermes Gowar - 2.5 stars
The Salt Miracles by Natasha Pulley - 2.5 stars, could have sworn left right and center she promoted this book with an excerpt of her story and it involved thaniel & mori from watchmaker and that would've been much better imo
Banished by Elizabeth Macneal - 3.5 stars, one of the best ones since it deals with the haunted feeling very well
The Gargoyle by Bridget Collins - 2 stars
The Master of the House by Stuart Tutton - 4 stars, easily the best story + unique concept and you don't feel sorry for the MC
Ada Lark by Jess Kidd - 2 stars
Jenkin by Carriona Ward - 3.5, lets go lesbians
Widow's Walk by Susan Stokes-Chapman - 1.5 stars, not horrific writing or such, just extremely boring that I cannot give 2 stars for it
Carol of the Bells and Chains by Laura Purcell - 2.5


Altogether, I am not sure if this was just me or others felt the same but most of these did not get the haunting feeling, the horror aspect right nor did you care for any of the characters. The best at doing all of this was Jenkin actually, then Master.

i wanted to hate read it and my god it was good for hate reading because there is nothing to like about it. but you can't look away at the trainwreck happening here. i cant even put this in my retellings tag because it is simply not one at all, what it borrows from greek mythology, Mas fucks it up, jumbles it around and makes it even worse.

the main character is around 19-20 in the book but she is physically queasy at any sort of nudity, she says "frick" and multiple times the line "free the nip (and vaginal lips)" comes up and you forget how old she is. also loveeeee (sarcasm) that every 10 chapters she went i miss my brother :(. ok we get it. the "romance" is just two guys stalking and sexually assaulting the MC, every character was genuinely unbearable and laughable.

also shoutout to chapter 34; the worst chapter, with the worst writing i have ever read in my 27 years of my life

but heres some quotes or things that will sum up this book: -achilles + patroclus founded a weapons manufacturing company aka discount lockheed martin? -in the first chapter with the mc she smells her own armpit mid convo -the constant aave and it being used incorrectly (my fav was "cunt. absolute cunt, served") -"thats why my nickname is sex" and "im war because of what i inflict in people's thoughts" (second one is based off memory but these both are from ch34) -the fact that the mc was starved, beaten, abused, homeless all in her childhood but she has no conditions that impair her

uploaded the above on goodreads but since you can do half stars here, half the time im too lazy to do all the stars here but i am 0.5 stars-ing it. jasmine mas you need to be publically shamed, put on a stage and get rotten tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage and apples thrown at you for this atrocity and for chapter 34 alone. that chapter made me want a lobotomy