Status Updates From The Hunger and the Howling ...

Someone call Barry Keoghan stat!

My book hangover has finally let me find a book I want to read and now I have to go to work. Just wanna reeeeead

This is SUCH an uncomfortable read, my god.

Eesh, epic trigger warning for self mutilation in this book. Some of these parts are really intense.

Now that they've finally discovered the creepy herb garden things are finally starting to pick up! Definitely a slow burn in the beginning but it's starting to grab my interest again.

He'd always leave the physical abuse to Patrick, his verbal attacks could inflict a violence that was far worse. Sometimes he'd hiss and whisper things that seemed designed to break you from the inside. On other occasions, he'd simply stare at you, assaulting you with his grotesque silence, the only clue to the rages within him his unyielding stare and a pale, sinewy look about his eyes, as if they'd been glued open

And I believed it, then, about the magic and the ancestor. I understood about the hunger and the howling. I understood that it was real and it would come. All of it would come.
I saw fire and flies and turnspit dogs and boiling bones and blood under the fingernails of men.
It was a dream of past and a dream of future.
It was a dream of horror.