#kate alice marshall

[melodysbookhaven]

“That’s the thing about trust, isn’t it? You gather all the evidence you can, use your brain, weigh character and past actions. But the final inch of it—that’s faith. Trust means believing in someone. It’s not just a conclusion. It’s a choice.”

Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

#kate alice marshall #what lies in the woods #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr #book community

[home-ward]

one of the spookiest things I’ve read in awhile

#dark academia #bookstore #mine #aes #cottage aesthetic #nature #books #photography detail #warmcore #ya horror #mystery books #the narrow #kate alice marshall

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - September 1st - TBR This Month

my goals for this month are just to get through some Libby holds that have been piling up while I focused on Australian books in August. plus some new releases I've been looking forward to (and would like to get off my TBR asap so I can start whittling down my "familiar authors" list lol)

#elliot page #this is how you lose the time war #chuck tingle #alexandria bellefleur #the brothers hawthorne #kate alice marshall #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 012

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

“Talk about a thing too much, you’re obsessed. Talk about it too little, you’re hiding something. And no such thing as a middle ground. She could never get it right. That perfect balancing act of the right way to speak, to be, to look, to feel, so your innocence could be confirmed. Once you were tainted you could never get clean.”

#books #2024 reads #no one can know #kate alice marshall #booklr #lit edit

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

I Am Still Alive

YA survival story

after a car crash killed her mother and left her with disabling scars, a girl is sent to live with her father - a survivalist in the middle of nowhere in Canada

when something happens to him, she has to survive with no food or shelter, and just his dog for company

#i am still alive #kate alice marshall #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #no romance #this is really good!!!! #I don't have much to say tbh all my reading notes on this says is: oh hell #i enjoyed it a lot the audiobook is good #disabled characters

[mothandnessieread]

An audiobook + cookies and hot chocolate = a perfect Saturday evening

I’ve been listening to What Lies in the Woods for one of my book clubs and I’m really liking it so far! I can’t wait to listen more and see where this story goes. What are you all reading this weekend?

#studyblr #studyspo #study aesthetic #bookblr #amreading #what lies in the woods #kate alice marshall #cozy reading

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (August 1st, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

I'll Tell You No Lies by Amanda McCrina

The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall

A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex

Zhara by S. Jae-Jones

Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

True True by Don P. Hooper

They Fade Away by Alex Armoredes

The Bewitching Hour by Ashley Poston

Omen of Ice by Jus Accardo

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Happy reading!

#new releases #new books #on books #on reading #book blog #book blogger #Features #book list #tbr #to-read #yalit #yareads #young adult #amanda mccrina #michelle quach #rachel griffin #kate alice marshall #adam rex #s. jae-jones #alex brown #don p. hooper #alex armoredes #ashley poston #just accardo #august 2023

[brightbeautifulthings]

'Maybe you don't have to die to be a ghost.'

Kate Alice Marshall, Our Last Echoes

#Q: #kate alice marshall #our last echoes #ghosts #haunting #ghost stories #horror #horror fiction #book quotes #books

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Sapphic YA Horror

Fave Five: Sapphic YA Horror

My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Rules for Vanishing and These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand The River Has Teeth and The Restless Dark by Erica Waters Bonus: Coming in June 2023, You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

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#A Lesson in Vengeance #Claire Legrand #Erica Waters #Kalynn Bayron #Kate Alice Marshall #Kayla Cottingham #My Dearest Darkest #Rules for Vanishing #Sawkill Girls #These Fleeting Shadows #Victoria Lee #You&039;re Not Supposed to Die Tonight

[mountainmaven]

Currently reading.

I started this last night and I can tell this book is going to be a ride!

#books #booklr #currently reading #my photos #kate alice marshall #what lies in the woods

[hollyhockdxll]

what lies in the woods // kate alice marshall

#book quotes #booksbooksbooks #witchcore #what lies in the woods #kate alice marshall #botm #botm 2023 #botmclub #bookblr #mine

[melodysbookhaven]

“Sometimes it seemed like the only thing I’d ever been good at was surviving being broken. I didn’t know how to be whole. So any time I felt like I was healing, I found a way to break myself again.”

Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

#kate alice marshall #what lies in the woods #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr

[shouts-into-the-void]

Dear Endless Expanse of Space,

Just finished These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall and I was pleasantly surprised. The ending left a bit to be desired and I found the main character a bit melodramatic at times, but Marshall really nailed the horror elements and the plot twist hit me like a truck. The main themes are eat the rich, fuck the patriarchy, and the all-consuming power of love, which it deals with pretty well even if it becomes a little heavy handed towards the latter half of the book. If you're not a fan of body horror, I might sit this one out though.

*Spoilers/Plot*

The story surrounds Helen Vaughn as she, her mother Rachel Vaughn, and her mother's boyfriend Simon reconnect with Rachel's estranged family for her father, Leopold's, funeral. We're told that he died of heart problems, which was unusual as "The Masters of Harrow" (the significance of which I will explain in a minute) tend to live a long time.

So they go through the funeral proceedings, the family is rich and snobby with the few exceptions of Helen's uncle Caleb and cousins Desmond and Celia, aaaaand then Helen sees some foxglove in Leopold's corpse's ribcage and hears him telling her to "Find the center of the spiral" because, oh yeah, the house is modeled after a labyrinth, and she understandably freaks out.

After the funeral, Caleb, Leopold's widow Iris, and his brother Eli, pull Rachel and Helen aside to inform them that Grandpa Mansplain Manipulate Manslaughter has left all of Harrowstone Hall and $40 million to Helen if she stays on the grounds for one year and if she says no then everyone else in the family except Iris also loses their inheritance. Apparently the will was mysteriously changed shortly before his death and everyone agrees this was to punish Rachel for abandoning the family, as she is pretty much terrified by Harrow for reasons she can't remember.

She initially refuses, but the car breaks down at the end of the driveway and while waiting for Rachel and Simon to go back and fetch help, Helen wanders into the woods in pursuit of a little girl with an obscured face who randomly appears asking her for help. The girl leads her to a cemetery, where Helen meets The Harrow Witch, who just so happens to be a really cute girl named Bryony who absolutely hates her and her family, but is the only person to tell her the truth about anything. Helen is obviously in love immediately, and goes back to the house. Far what are actually really unclear reasons, Helen decides to stay after all.

She begins to try and find answers as to what happened during Nicholas' experiments, who killed Leopold and Caleb's daughter Jessamine (both whom The Other takes the form of in order to speak, called Figments), why local girls with the family eyes are going missing, and how to survvie the year as Helen becomes increasingly more sick. While Helen and the Vaughns believe The Other is a monster that needs to be contained, Bryony believes it's simply misunderstood and wants to free it.

Helen slowly gleans that Harrow is actually a cage built for a creature called "The Other" that seems to be a god from another world that founder of Harrow Nicholas Vaughn, his wife Annelise, and friend Dr. Raymond accidentally set loose in our world after their experiments trying to make the human mind able to comprehend The Other (in which they lobotomize Dr. Raymond's ward Mary Beaumont and open her up to it, causing her to go insane) accidentally binds it to a child which Nicholas claims appeared when she saw The Other, but is suggested to actually be his due to some...interesting journal entries.

Throughout the book, Helen develops a romantic relationship with Bryony and becomes close with Desmond and Celia, the only Vaughns outside Rachel who don't suck, likely because they also have no idea what's going on.

Eventually, after months of sleepwalking, being attacked by The Other's monstrous creations, Celia's father dying, Helen slowly dying and nearly contorting into one of the monsters, and everyone being shady af; Helen, Bryony, Desmond, and Celia translate the last of Nicholas' diary and discover he killed the child bound to The Other and dismembered her in order to keep it confused/use its powers for himself, and the family is a pretty much a murderous cult that repeatedly binds The Other to an illegitimate Vaughn child and repeats the process every time it starts to heal. The four decide to dig up the girls' bones and put them back together so they can talk to The Other, but Desmond and Celia leave because Desmond knows information the reader doesn't.

So they go into the murder chamber and arrange the bones and ask it what's up.

Helen is The Other.

Um. What.

In a twist of events that hit me over the head with a hammer, it turns out that Helen is actually a piece of The Other that it split off itself so that at least some of it could be free, and then changed Rachel's memories so that she'd believe Helen was her daughter and escape with her. We did see throughout the story that a lot of Helen's personality was similar to The Other, in that she could see inside of people (ie. The foxglove in Leopold's chest because he was poisoned with Foxglove) and has an unavoidable need to create things (using animal bones). Also Simon is one of The Other's creations. Helen then erased her own memories so she could live a normal life, although people were afraid of her because they could tell she wasn't normal and was altering their minds.In another twist, Bryony knows this already because she can't be fooled by The Other and so does Desmond because Helen told him while she was sick and then forgot.

And so does Caleb! And everyone else...in the family...and Celia just told them that Helen remembers to try and help...

They kill Helen.

She doesn't stay dead, and they just keep killing her every time she tries to escape. Eventually they trap her in an endless loop in which she wanders the halls in a trance because it's "more humane" and the rest of the year passes as they prepare to sacrifice her and make Caleb Master of Harrow. Caleb has also told everyone that Helen killed Jessamine, even though it turns out to be him after they tried to kill Celia and it failed because Eli and Victoria whisked her off to London.

Desmond, Celia, and Bryony try to devise a way to break the loop, but Rachel ends up doing it by accident when she demands Helen to tell her why she made her think she loved her, slaps her in the face when she calls her mom, and then starts crying in the hallway. Helen runs away, pursued by Caleb, when Eli shoves her in the library and clears her way to the door. She sees Rachel again and stops, Caleb catches up and shoots her but Rachel jumps in the way and nearly dies, so Helen just reshapes reality so the bullet doesn't exist. They will still proceed to try and shoot her, btw.

Helen flees, finds Bryony, and hides in a derelict cabin. Eli finds them and reveals that the last child to be murdered was Leopold's, and Eli had formed a bond with her after seeing how his brother used and abandoned her mother. In revenge, Leopold had made him be the one to dismember her, but Eli had instead given her a proper burial which allowed The Other to heal enough to form Helen. Eli has been on Helen's side the entire time, because two years ago she got sick and remembered again, and the two made a plan that involved Eli poisoning his brother, changing the will, and also cutting off Helen's hand at one point.

To conclude the plan, Helen turns herself in and goes through with the ceremony, before refusing the poison Caleb gives her and proclaiming herself Mistress of Harrow with Caleb as her sacrifice, as she had previously carried out the necessary components for the ritual and Desmond, Celia, and Bryony all recognise her as the rightful heir. Caleb gets stabby, so Helen fully sheds her flesh-suit and kills him and Iris, sparing Victoria. Eli makes the decision to remain in the chamber while The Other demolishes Harrow and the others flee, and so she turns herself into his niece and alters his mind so he believes he's spending one last day at the park with her while he dies.

Fully The Other now, they remain at the ruins of Harrow and creates, up until Bryony returns (presumably a few years later as she mentions her father wouldn't let her live on the grounds) and refuses to leave until they decide who to be, promising to love them no matter what they decide and revealing the others haven't returned because they believe Helen is dead. The Other decides to be Helen again, and live together with Bryony in a cottage on the grounds, promising to one day leave and see the world.

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So that was a very long synopsis, but I like explaining things so this is what you get. There were a lot of little details I left out, so definitely give it a read yourself.

#I think my favorite part was Eli basically telling everyone to go fuck themselves as his secret. I love him #I hope he and Mary are talking shit about the Vaughns in the afterlife. #these fleeting shadows #kate alice marshall #plot summary #do you think Bryony spent the time Helen was bedridden googling “cute things to call your omnipotent god girlfriend” #blog #letters #horror #tw body horror #body horrow cw #mystery #sapphic #lesbian #lesbians #sapphic horror #does a genderless primordial god in the body of a girl count as a demigirl?

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - October 25th - Shadows

just a stack of shadow titles 🖤

#kate alice marshall #laura sebastian #maria v snyder #richelle mead #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[desdasiwrites]

– Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

#book quote of the day #kate alice marshall #rules for vanishing #faux-documentary style #horror #mystery #ghosts #lgbtqia+ #bisexual mc

[libraryleopard]

Young adult horror novel

Seventeen-year-old Helen Vaughan has no connection with her mother’s side of the family under her maternal grandfather dies and unexpectedly leaves her everything in his will, with one condition: that she spend a year at Harrowhurst Hall, the ancestral Vaughan family estate 

At Harrowhust Hall, Helen finds that both the house and her family are hiding dark secrets that she begins investigating with her cousins and a local enigmatic witch girl

Plays with elements both gothic and cosmic horror

Great use of an unreliable narrator

Sapphic main character & love interest, F/F romance

#this was great! #i really like kate alice marshall's horror books she's def an auto-read author now #these fleeting shadows #kate alice marshall #2023 reads #books #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads these fleeting shadows #gothic girl january