Happy Tuesday bookish friends!Thank you GP Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for the e-arc!
What do you get when you cross the Roy family from the show Succession with the supernatural? You get author Alma Katsu upcoming book Fiend. It comes out September 16.
Zef Berisha is the patriarch of a massively successful import export company. The family and their company have been in business for generations and are staggering wealthy. They’ve always been lucky too. Their business rivals always suffer- from illness, natural disasters, or some kind of unexplainable calamity. Zef says their family is blessed and family legend says they have a protector. Oldest son Darden is preparing to be the keeper of the family’s secrets and to take over one day. Middle child Maris thinks she’s better suited to run the company instead of just marrying well. And youngest sibling Nora is basically ignored. When Maris goes against her brother to ingratiate herself with Zef, the family begins to experience unexpected tragedies.
This a fast paced and entertaining light horror novel that combines family and boardroom drama and backstabbing with the supernatural. The characters are pretty cliched - a cold and distant father, a complacent mother, a son chaffing against family expectations, a daughter who wants daddy’s love and power, and another daughter who’d rather party than do business. The characters and the plot are all pretty surface level. There’s not a lot of depth here. This is definitely a bubblegum book. I could see all the twists and turns coming, but it was still a fun read. Hard core horror fans might find it disappointing, but if you want something filled with family drama with a smidge of supernatural this one fits the bill.
Do you read horror? If you give me a recommendation. Or what are you reading this week?
About the Author
Alma Katsu is the award-winning author of eight novels, most recently Red London, The Fervor, and Red Widow. Prior to the publication of her first novel, she had a thirty-five-year career as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies, including the CIA and NSA, as well as RAND, the global policy think tank. Katsu is a graduate of the masters writing program at the Johns Hopkins University and received her bachelors degree from Brandeis University. She lives outside of Washington, DC, with her husband, where she is a consultant to government and private industry on future trends and analytic methods.
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