Blood on Her Tongue

Paperback, 352 pages

Published by Poisoned Pen Press.

ISBN:
978-1-7282-8157-5
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The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.

Then, the worst happens. Sarah's behavior takes a turn for the strange. She becomes angry… and hungry.

Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever.

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An absolutely stunning gorefest

Johanna delivered a lovely gorefest with Blood on Her Tongue. The book is intense, gruesome, and genuinely disturbing. Love it!

I do have to say, it was a bit of a bummer there the story was prefaced by almost an entire page of trigger warnings. She probably meant well, but this was by itself an enormous spoiler for what we were in for. It allowed me to flip the switch and gobble it up the way you do with some disturbing dark comedy.

Because of this, I also never felt the story became scary. Especially towards the end I felt the constant barrage of obscenities had lost their impact, and I became a little bit bored to read the end of it. The ending wasn’t bad, but it was forgettable.

Either way, a great read, and recommended for lovers of gothic as well as dark comedians that …