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The Company: The Chilling, Gothic Thriller by J.M. Varese

US pub date - 9/10/24

Lucy is a strong and resilient MFC who’s trying to keep her family together, and brother in good health to run their family’s legacy business - wallpaper colored with arsenic - afloat after the deaths of her father and his business partner (I won’t go any further into the synopsis).

The Company is a wonderfully written and compulsively readable Gothic thriller that pulled me in right away as it set the stage for atmosphere and the paranormal. 

The not-so-good (for me) - 

*Lucy was the only notable character, the others fade into the background 

*I found the ending anticlimactic 

Despite the not-so-good aspects, I couldn’t stop reading. 

Thank you to Baskerville and NetGalley for the DRC