Ariel’s Reviews > Hungerstone > Status Update

Fave literary formula: Victorian-era woman reckoning with her self-hood & sexuality, society’s imposed constraints, control, power or lack thereof, & what drives her - her fears & innermost desires - add some laudanum & a vampire (literal or figurative) to assist in said reckoning *bonus points for sapphic narrative* & the woman’s descent into madness transforms, then ultimately enlightens & exalts her