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In 1910, eleven year old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor Iris and her father are the last of their name The Villarcas always die young, bloodily Iris knows it s because of a congenital disease which means she must be strictly isolated Papa told her so Forbidden to speak to other children or the servants, denied her one friend, Iris grows up in solitude But she reads books And one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother s grave, she forces the truth from her father The disease is biologically impossible A lie, to cover a darker secret.The Villarcas are haunted, through the generations, by her She is white, skeletal, covered with scars Her origins are a mystery but her purpose is clear When a Villarca marries, when they love, when they have a child she comes and death follows.Iris makes her father a promise to remain alone all her life But when she s fifteen, she breaks it The consequences of her choice are immediate and horrific.Iris s story is interwoven with the past, the voices of the dead Villarcas, taken by her Iris s grandmother sets sail from Dover to Italy with a hired companion, to spend her final years in the sun before consumption takes her Instead she meets betrayal, and a fate worse than death Iris s father, his medical career in ruins, conducts unconscionable experiments, to discover how she travels in the Villarca blood Iris s mother, pregnant, walks the halls of Rawblood whispering to her, coaxing her to come As the narratives converge, Iris seeks her out in a confrontation which shatters her past and her reality, revealing the chasm in Iris s own, fractured identity Who is she What does she desire The answer is terrible and stranger than Iris could have imagined. Free Read [ Rawblood ] Author [ Catriona Ward ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr She comes in the night Sometimes, in mist or fog A woman, or once a woman White, starvedHave you not felt her Waiting in the shadowed places outside the lamplight, at the bottom of wells Behind you, in long dark corridorsI just explained this book from start to finish in full spoiler ridden glory to my fianc He looked at me afterward, slightly aghast, and said, The hell did you just read Then he started laughing How the hell do you review that I m still struggling to answShe comes in the night Sometimes, in mist or fog A woman, or once a woman White, starvedHave you not felt her Waiting in the shadowed places outside the lamplight, at the bottom of wells Behind you, in long dark cor...Review originally published at Learn This Phrase Rawblood opens with the idiosyncratic voice of eleven year old Iris Villarca She lives with her father in a lonely mansion, the titular Rawblood, on Dartmoor There, he has convinced her of the legend of their family the Villarcas suffer from a hereditary condition, given the evocative moniker horror autotoxicus , and Iris will die young if she neglects to follow his strict set of capital R Rules Essentially, the Rules say she must stay away f Review originally published at Learn This Phrase Rawblood opens with the idiosyncratic voice of eleven year ...A literary horror story that follows the cursed Villarca family and their ancestral home.We start in the early 20th century with the last surviving Villarcas, young Iris and her father Allonso living at Rawblood, their estate in Devonshire Iris lives a sheltered and proscribed existence because of her father s obsession with a curse which has killed everyone in the family for generations As we get different points of Iris s life the story jumps around in time giving us the story of the family A literary horror story that follows the cursed Villarca family and their ancestral home.We start in the early 20th century with the last surviving Villarcas, young Iris and her father Allonso living at Rawblood, their estate in Devonshire Iris lives a sheltered and proscribed existence because of her father s obsession with a curse which has killed everyone in the family for generations As we get different points of Iris s life the story jumps around in time giving us the story of the family going back generations at R...When it comes to horror a Gothic tale has something that with all likelihood always will appeal to me Add a mysterious family haunted by an entity just called her and I m sold THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD instantly appealed to me with its fascinating cover and interesting description Iris and her father live in a lonely old mansion on Dartmoor and he warns her that she should never fall in love because strong feelings bring on her and when she comes, brutal death will follow Nevertheless, Iris When it comes to horror a Gothic tale has something that with all likelihood always will appeal to me Add a mysterious family haunted by an entity just called her and I m sold THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD instantly appealed to me with its fascinating cover and interesting description Iris and her father live in a lonely old mansion on Dartmoor and he warns her that ...Rawblood is a gothic horror love story that falls into the annals of literary classics Indeed, the undercurrents of the novel whisper of Wuthering Heights, The Turn of the Screw, Rebecca, the Woman in White and others.At the beginning, we are introduced to the family trees of the Villarca family and that of the Gils and the Coulsons Time unravels in a non linear orientation and we encounter the people major and minor in the family tree in what appears to be a random fashion, and their...This book is freaking brilliant If you like literary gothic horror with a bit of the supernatural and like non linear timelines with plot lines that have puzzles to solve This book is your jamA thank you to Catriona Ward, Sourcebooks, and Netgalley for sharing this copy for an unbiased review.Ward has an impressive grasp of the metaphor and leads the reader to conclusions instead of blatantly stating what s happened I appreciate both of those methods Ultimately The Girl from Rawblood is a book about love and who belongs together, not just a ghost story Relegating it to that box would sell it short It s writt...We first meet Iris Villarca in 1910 when she is eleven She lives with her father at Rawblood, a lovely house on Dartmoor However, although her existence appears idyllic, there are dark issues beneath the surface The Villarca s always die young and Iris s father has implemented, The Rules This means that Iris and her father must live alone, with no servants and no friends Iris only has one friend Tom Gil, a local boy but even that is forbidden.This novel ra...Set in 1910 in Dartmoor,this ghost story as a unique feel to it, gothic and creepy I loved it The author did a fantastic job with the characters,with a awesome setting you felt as if you were there,living and feeling what irises pest, was going through Brilliant back story which jumps to the present and back which the author did effectively and seemingly with appropriate ease, we learn of the curse, I won t give anything away as I believe everyone would enjoy this novel highly recommended it a Set in 1910 in Dartmoor,this ghost story as a unique feel to it, gothic and creepy I loved it The author did a fantastic job with the characters,w...3.5 stars somewhere between I liked it and I really liked it Rounding up for a great ending.This book has strong elements of horror in it sensitive readers might want to avoid Animal violence included It s really hard to describe this book without spoiling anything It s a gothic novel about a family cursed with a white lady, who has haunted their ancestral house for generations It s about Iris, the last daughter of the house And it s about her family before her and how the curse a 3.5 stars somewhere between I liked it and I really liked it Roundi...

Rawblood
  • English
  • 25 September 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 0297609645
  • Catriona Ward
  • Rawblood