Hello, fellow Friday 56ers!
For this week's Friday 56 pick, hosted by My Head is Full of Books, I am featuring the 2025 horror novel The Captive by British author Kit Burgoyne. An ARC has been collecting dust on my desk for a bit too long.
Now, here’s a preview from page 56:
When you're brought up at a place like Cyneburne, you eventually discover that life outside is quite different—in innumerable ways it is quite different, but one of them is the basic physical fabric of it; even as a girl, she remembers thinking that most things out in the real world felt unaccountably flimsy and thin.
— Burgoyne, Kit. The Captive, Soho Press, 2025, p. 56.
According to the blurb, the plot has been compared to Rosemary's Baby. I plan to read the novel over the weekend, and I expect to have my review ready by Monday.
〜B.J. Burgess
Wow, that cover is a bit creepy. Maybe something I would have read as a teen or young adult, but I think it might be too much now, especially being compared to Rosemary's Baby. . .
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The novel is about a pregnant heiress, Adeline, who gets kidnapped by anti-capitalist guerrillas. It's not a normal pregnancy; Adeline's parents engineered the pregnancy as a part of a dark bargain with an ancient evil.
DeleteThat cover! It looks like the typical mystery/thriller cover and then one noticed the pacifier. Fun.
ReplyDeleteIt's surprising how a pacifier can look unsettling.
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