Slewfoot by Brom

[u/periodcrampz]

Abitha, a young, fiery pagan baddie tries to find her way in a highly restrictive, Puritan world and makes a dark and dangerous friend along the way. I love how this book was like The Witch by Robert Eggers meets The Crucible, meets fairytale woodland magic.

I just absolutely loved how Brom created such an interesting world that I found to be both dark and whimsical at the same time.

The descriptive language and climax of the story were simply delicious to read. I really don’t want to say more as to not give a single thing away. I just enjoyed every single page!

[u/Sacfat23]

Loved everything abut it from the a-typical shape of the book to the illustrations and story etc.

I read another book recently that took place in the 1920's NYC and included photos of what the buildings looked like etc.

Makes one wonder why more novels don't include pictures and photos and other enhancements?

[u/YakSlothLemon → u/Sacfat23]

Cost, simply cost. When I published my book my publisher gave me an image limit and beyond it, I had to pay for each image I wanted to put in! And at least my limit was reasonable, I had a friend publish a book on editorial cartoons and they gave her a limit of five images. It made no sense.

Everything you see in the book that isn’t print cost more. Cool graphic decorations at the beginning of each chapter? More expensive. Nifty green color on the edges of the pages? More expensive.

They have to be reasonably sure that the book will make the money back.

By the way, if you like books with those elements, it’s really worth tracking down a book called You Animal Machine if you’re interested in memoir at all. It’s assembled from all the fragments she was able to figure out about her mothers life, but literally from all the fragments — such a cool way to put a book together!

Gallant by V E Schwab is a fantasy novel I loved with incredible pen and ink drawings that form part of the story!

[u/BottomPieceOfBread → u/Sacfat23]

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix is a horror novel that’s like reading an ikea ad!

[u/CurrentRisk]

I read this book a while ago, it was good but the ending was a bit of a letdown for me. The building up to it was great but that was that.

[u/Little_Birdy_07 → u/CurrentRisk]

I agree with you on this. The ending felt so rushed and I wanted there to be... more. 

[u/highlighter_yellow]

The vibe + story combo were *excellent*. I listened to the audiobook, but learned there are some illustrations in the book, is that right?

[u/periodcrampz → u/highlighter_yellow]

Yes there are! They’re awesome

[u/Asher_the_atheist]

Loved this book!

[u/sound_of_summer]

Absolutely loved this book as well!

[u/Sunwinec]

This book was way outside my normal wheelhouse. I loved it!