Unfortunate Creatures

Unfortunate Creatures is a haunting feast of labyrinthine corridors, desperate love, and the consequences of cutthroat ambition with no bounds. What will you do for the one you love the most? Crissa’s answer is everything. Gothic and glorious, with a gory heart at its core * Georgia Summers *
Crackles with magic, yearning and imagination. This queer-positive twist on Frankenstein would delight Mary Shelley, with its boundary-pushing scientists, gothic mansions and star-crossed lovers. Holly Race shines an unflinching light on the hopes and horrors inherent to the human condition, and delivers so many twists and turns, I was left breathless. Magnificent * Josh Winning *
Twisty, dark and heart-wrenching. A gothic feast that crackles with magic and science as it explores what it means to be human. This Frankenstein retelling will leave you as obsessed as the morally grey main character in her pursuit of love * M.A Kuzniar *
This is the Edgar Allan Poe meets Frankenstein gothic novel of my dreams - Holly Race is a diabolical genius, and the only thing unfortunate about this book is that it had to end! * Courtney Smyth *
When it comes to ripping out hearts, Race never fails to succeed! * Bex Hogan *
Wild, frantic, feverish, Unfortunate Creatures is a seduction of a book. In turns ravenously hungry, and bittersweet and aching, I was entranced. Race will break your heart, then eat it whole * Kat Dunn *
With its bloody core of toxic adoration and deeply unsettling power dynamics, Unfortunate Creatures is a disturbing, viscera-filled child of Frankenstein in which death is a plaything and love turns even the best people into monsters. I stayed up late to devour it from tragic start to gut-punch ending * Cassidy Ellis Salter *
Heart-breaking and haunting, with impeccable atmosphere and characters you will fall in love with. Unfortunate Creatures is a gothic masterpiece * Ann Sei Lin *
With the haunting, harried precision of an unhealthy obsession, Race’s Unfortunate Creatures takes a scalpel to humanity’s darkest questions, carving deep into the point where grief, ambition and monstrosity converge. Gorgeous, gruesome and gloriously Gothic * Lyra Selene *

Holly Race is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Tudor-inspired fantasy trilogy Six Wild Crowns (Orbit) and the Young Adult urban fantasy trilogy Midnight’s Twins (Hot Key). She is currently a Royal Literary Fund fellow, attached to the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and daughter in a crumbling Bridgerton-era house, and when she isn’t writing, she can be found renovating, baking, and river swimming.

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