Can you call yourself human if supernatural forces control your every breath, every emotion, every desire?
Posing as a folklore tour guide, Valya Svetlova takes a group of American college students and their professor, Chris Waller, to her summer home in the Russian village of Vishenky for a few nights of supernatural phenomena. She plays the perfect hostess. For Valya doesn’t want anyone to discover she harbors selfish motives when it comes to one participant, the only person who can refute a tale declaring her a stillborn resurrected by a paranormal entity.
Within hours of their arrival, Valya learns that the students foster some dangerous agendas of their own. Her nascent feelings toward the handsome professor inhibit her ability to control the supernatural manifestations and her inquisitive guests. When her unforeseen affection turns Chris into a target, Valya faces an excruciating reality. It’s no longer in her human power to ensure her guests’ safety. Yet to keep them alive, Valya must brush off her humanity and become the thing she fights so desperately to prove she is not—a soulless monster.
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My Review: (Thanks to NetGalley)
This was a red hot mess. It was all over the place and the same chapter felt like it was constantly being repeated without anything actually happening. I was never sure what was going on, bits and pieces were thrown in half-hazardously, and the whole paranormal element was never really explained. Entities, Russian monsters, a witch that was goodish then bad and something to do with portals? And probably my biggest gripe SPOILER ALERT, if you were stillborn, then brought back to life thanks to an entity, that has to feed on portals to stay alive (I think) how do you magically turn into a normal human when you get rid of said entity? Wouldn't you just be dead with nothing to sustain you?
Wish I hadn't wasted my time.
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