Family Curse

Family Curse (Field Notebook 1880-2020)

By Tenacity Plys

Genre:-Horror, Fantasy, LGBTQ

Publisher:-Bottlecap Press

Blurb:-They say in town that every generation, fairies lure a member of Virgil's family into the local woods, never to be seen again. Virgil doesn't really care about that: they're just squatting at their aunt's vacant house during quarantine. But one night, they're awoken by a knocking at the book door that leads them into a tangle of family secrets, and a mystery that's as heart-breaking as it is chilling.

 To understand their family history and avoid disappearing themself, Virgil doesn't really care about that; they're just squatting at their aunt's vacant house during quarantine. But one night, they're awoken by a knocking at the back door that leads them into a tangle of family secrets, and a mystery that's as heart-breaking as it is chilling.

 To understand their family history and avoid disappearing themself, Virgil has to piece together journal entries from three generations of their relatives, who all spent their lives wondering why their siblings were taken. Has a serial killer been operating in the area for over a century. Could it be the aliens Virgil's great-uncle saw on an acid trip? And who is the figure watching them all from the forest edge?

 Every relative has their pet theory, and they get to argue about it in the margins as each narrator leaves comments on the others' writing via Post-Its, footnotes, and more. The found-document form is stretched to the limit by this cacophonous debate across time, and in the end no one story holds the whole truth.

 If Virgil can solve the puzzle, they won't just save themselves-they'll put more than a hundred years' worth of family's struggle to understand themselves is by turns spooky, funny, sad and hopeful despite everything.

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My Review:-This book is not wrote like a normal book, it is wrote in the form as a field notebook. I found this a quick read. We are in a four-bedroom in the middle of nowhere. We start April 2020 cleaning notes, day 1, labelling boxes and coming across some old journals and documents from my families past. Journaling has been going on in the family since the 1800s. I love how it start with buying some Oreos and vodka. I think I would need something strong  if I was in a house next to the woods on my own, especially at 4:30am and someone's knocking on the back door, even if there is a bookcase barricading my bedroom door. I enjoyed how you can pictured the scenes as the different writers are writing their journals. This book is a mix of humour and spooky with a bit of mystery added in. I did like the the end June 8th 2020, who do you think it is?