What Fiction are you reading this week, August 7, 2022?

[hermetic]

12. Ooh, another Hertopian novel

There was just a little discussion about this genre, a few posts down.

"After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this 1600s parable...Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization." Sounds great.

And, like any good ghost story, Straub's "stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares."