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Violence
Some
Some violence; the psychological horror of self-destruction
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual references
Substance Use
None
Alcohol use as part of the protagonist's spiral
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A sustained descent into psychological horror — guilt, grief, and the dissolution of self
What this book is about
A famous but fading Hollywood actress, fleeing a devastating personal loss, rents a room in a rundown Vermont inn — and finds herself trapped in a psychological spiral she may not escape. Ki Longfellow's dark psychological thriller plays with the boundaries of reality, guilt, and self-destruction in a claustrophobic Gothic setting.
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Psychological horror and dissolution of reality
Themes of grief, guilt, and self-destruction
Claustrophobic Gothic atmosphere
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