Family Curse - by Tenacity Plys

Thank you @tenacity_plys @lovebookstours for letting me part if this tour and reviewing this book. Family curse is horror and short read. I found it fast paced , Intense and a great read. The story is written in diary/ journal form and Virgil is trying to found out about her family history beccause she dose not want to disapper like the others. The plot was great and the story had a creepy eerie feeling to it which i liked. Great writting style. I will definatly read more by Tenacity Plys in the future. I do like good horror and do recommed this book. 5 stars. Blurb “Family Curse is a sardonic epistis olary mystery, a unique narrative braided with humor and slow-building dread.” –Sloane Leong, author of Graveneye and Prism Stalker "Tenacity Plys makes sure nothing will hit us as realistically as fiction does. The work makes one question our very history and horror...simply let this novelette take you where it wants, and without question.” — Pascale Potvin, Editor-in-Chief of Wrongdoing Magazine “With a measure of strangeness and a measure of humor, Plys artfully deconstructs a family curse. The reader is left with troubling questions: what does it mean to be alien, estranged, lost in the woods--even amongst one's own family?” -– Germ Lynn, author of Pressured Speech “Family Curse is a densely packed and layered novella that merits a reread. It achieves an unusual and delightful mix of chills, comedic relief, and thoughtful consideration.” – Anna Veriani, author of The Winter Quarters 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 back door that leads them into a tangle of family secrets, and a mystery that's as heartbreaking 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 forests' 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 history to rest. This story of a neurodivergent family's struggle to understand themselves is by turns spooky, funny, sad, and hopeful despite everything.