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Charlotte and Oliver are those 1 in 4. They’ve known what it is to experience baby loss. Every pregnancy they’ve conceived, they’ve lost. There’s no reasoning to it, but Charlotte’s body cannot stay pregnant. It’s killing the couple – Oliver treads on eggshells around his wife and Charlotte cannot bear to see her husband grieving in the quiet of his office. What is it going to take to have a baby or is this cycle of pain destined to continue?
The Willows is their dream home. After receiving a handsome inheritance from Charlotte’s deceased parents after a car accident, they purchase the palatial gothic home. It needs a lot of work. The window shutters are hanging, the roof has missing slates and a boarded-up basement. The couple know they have a lot of work ahead of them, but the real question is what else have they inherited? Strange dreams and frightening visions plague Charlotte, so what else is harbouring in The Willows or are they just Marked for Sorrow?
Vivid Depictions of miscarriage
ASIN : B0D9DG1S8N
Publication date : July 12, 2024
Language : English
File size : 577 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 123 pages
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h0rr0r l0v3r –
Marked For Sorrow is nightmarish and uncompromising. Her best work yet.
Andrew Harden –
Haunting, Harrowing, and Heartbreaking
A departure from the normal extreme horror/splatterpunk genre I’ve been devouring, I decided to dip my toes into a modern-day Gothic horror tinged with grief. And how full of sorrow this story actually is.The trigger warnings for this story deal with pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirth, and the book does not gingerly place you into the world. It hits HARD on the first page.Couple Charlotte and Oliver Fraser are dealing with their fourth miscarriage in the beginning of the book while also handling renovations on a relatively recently purchased gorgeous mansion nestled in the Scottish Highlands.Told from Charlotte’s first person POV, the story is a gripping and harrowing account of an all-too real situation that can affect couples hoping to start a family. Her characterization feels intimately authentic as the effects of miscarriage after miscarriage take their toll on her hope for a child, but this is not a female MC who woes her heartbreak away. Intelligent, with a resolve of steel, Charlotte is a protagonist who stays realistic without edging to a fatalistic outlook on life — something that is quite refreshing to read.There is pain in this story, yet there is also hope. Death changes us, but it doesn’t have to define us. And there is beauty in accepting what we can and cannot change.Being quite open, I myself had a moment of child-loss over a decade ago, something I’ve never quite told anyone before, which haunts me to this day. Add to that the personal loss that has affected me this year, this book was intensely difficult to get through in parts. But it was a pain I welcome as healing, like a bone mending itself, or the itching of a wound scabbing over with healthy flesh underneath.This is a Gothic tale through-and-through, however, and the supernatural hauntings (of which I won’t reveal much) are intense and harrowing. Several times during my reading, I actually jumped out of my skin when I heard a random noise from behind me — a feat only one other story has managed to achieve for me in quite some time. It harkens back to the greats of classic haunted literature, and the influences can be felt throughout.A few points the intensity does ramp up close to the extreme side of horror, but it never feels vile nor malicious. Every chilling and scary experience is intentional and meant to impart the reader with a sense of pain and, hopefully, empathy.I absolutely adored this story, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a story with a slightly slower pace, one that doesn’t pull it’s punches.