I ultimately went with horror because it felt like the visions and house and the odd instances fit more into horror than fantasy as the entire book has this sense of menace and dread, partly conjured by these elements.
It was clearly a gothic tale, but was it a gothic fantasy? A gothic horror? I wouldn’t call it a historical gothic because I think (based on a refence to a fax machine and another to blocky phones) it’s probably set in the 90s (which might make the other time line 80s?), and maybe that is considered historical these days, but not to me! This is a book that I struggled to classify the entire way through. THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE is a really creepy gothic horror that’s gorgeously written and hard to put down. or their lives.īlurb taken from Goodreads. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared.
They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after-and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.īut when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist.
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada.
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