Matthew McVickar

I'm enjoying this series so much. Can't wait for the third book.

Terrific, terrific, and very creepy.

Shirley Jackson is wonderful. Every one of these short stories is so masterfully written, small and medium-sized portraits of big-city and small-town incivility and anxiety and interpersonal slight so mundane but so universal. And a perfectly dark sense of humor. A lot of these stories focus on what life was like for women in the middle of the century, but don't seem at all foreign for it. I've read ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle' and ‘The Haunting of Hill House' and this and I have enjoyed all three a lot. I'm going to read everything of hers I can.

This book is perfect. Unsettling, gripping, masterfully written.

The context of this novel is so foreign to me that it barely resonated at all. I appreciate the style and structure, but this is not for me, and I don't have much interest in putting in the research that might open it up for me.