Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a giant Lunar Spider, tended to by a monastic group of worshippers called the Alabaster Scholars. Dr. Cull is using the lunar silk from the dead spider to "repair" people's brains.
As Veronica's memories are tampered with, she finds a surprising reserve of power within herself, upending everyone else's plans for her and stepping into a grand new role she had never imagined for herself.
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Looking through the small oval window of the twin-engine passenger shuttle which carried her over the moon's gray and rubbled plains, Veronica recalled a local myth, which held that the moon was the inhabited shell of a long-dead god who once trod the dark pathways of space like a king through his star-curtained palace (1. THE BARROWFIELD HOME FOR TREATMENT OF THE MELANCHOLY)
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(@TitanBooks, 27 August 2024, e-galley, 128 pages, ARC from the publisher via @NetGalley_UK)
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This is a new author for me. I really enjoyed Crypt of the Moon Spider. I hope to read and equally enjoy the other two books in the trilogy. This is a short read, more of a novella and I devoured it really quickly. I was having such a good time I didn't want the book to end. This is a horror / science fiction book. I have a fear of spider and this book really freaked me out at times especially towards the end when things get very hairy. I thought this was an entertaining read and I'd recommend it.
