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Comfort Me with Apples
Reader Score
74%
74% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 7 reviews on
Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver
A Shirley Jackson Award finalist!
A Locus Award finalist!
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect.
It's just that he's away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect.
But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband's face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can't quite meet her gaze....
But everything is perfect. Isn't it?
Book Details
- Publisher: Tordotcom
- Publish Date: Nov 9th, 2021
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.20in - 0.70in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781250816214
- Categories: • Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology• Thrillers - Domestic• Fantasy - Contemporary
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About the Author
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo awards, as well as the Prix Imaginales. Valente has also been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
Find out more on her website and on Twitter!
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What people are saying
NYT/USAT Bestselling author of Fairyland novels, Space Opera, Deathless & more | https://t.co/OUZ0J1HN8G | TipJar: https://t.co/5hMWKj7ZiW
RT @paulsemel: Read Catherynne M. Valente's "Comfort Me With Apples" tonight. https://t.co/aYAEJ9zBCA 📖🍏🍎 Well, that was thoroughly creepy.…
OOC for all #Fatal #Radiant Fan fic Rp Parody accts. My names Kat, Katie, Katelyn however you wish to call me. @AlexsBatCave #Fatal #Radiant (OOC/MC 21 +)
I’m in the mood for some campy horror and I’m looking for something that is fast paced and engaging. I love a good slasher movie in the style of Night of The Mannequins by Steven Graham Jones and Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente is also an interesting read.
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@TalkScaredPod I bought and really loved Comfort Me with Apples because of your conversation with Catherynne Valente. That convo did an amazing job of making me incredibly curious without spoiling anything.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
A Shirley Jackson Award finalist!
A Locus Award finalist!
Praise for Comfort Me With Apples:
"Valente modernizes the old-fashioned "what's up with my husband" question that many heroines in dusty castles pondered [and] brings to mind Ira Levin's classic The Stepford Wives" --The Washington Post, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"No one can move from sweet whimsy to bone-deep dread with the deftness of Catherynne M. Valente. Comfort Me With Apples is a darkly elegant fairytale-horror story that will haunt you in the best ways. Move it to the top of your TBR." --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author
"A lush and furious fairytale. Valente always delivers." --Laurie Penny, screenwriter for The Haunting of Bly Manor and author of Everything Belongs to the Future
"I just about melted into the story, and someone will have to comb through Valente's exquisite prose to fish out my skeleton because I was wholly lost in the tale. It was so clever, so nefarious, so, well, Valente. To me, she's Angela Carter with knives for teeth." --Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author
"Comfort Me With Apples is a furious and tantalizingly crooked domestic mystery, as slim and sharp as a needle." --Melissa Albert, bestselling author of The Hazel Wood
"Valente's prose is crystalline as always: airy, beautiful, perfect as Sophia herself. But under all that beauty, there is an open wound bleeding so much rage. Comfort Me With Apples is the first book in a long time that has managed to surprise me: an experience both cathartic and unforgettable." --Cassandra Khaw, award-winning author
What people are saying
NYT/USAT Bestselling author of Fairyland novels, Space Opera, Deathless & more | https://t.co/OUZ0J1HN8G | TipJar: https://t.co/5hMWKj7ZiW
RT @paulsemel: Read Catherynne M. Valente's "Comfort Me With Apples" tonight. https://t.co/aYAEJ9zBCA 📖🍏🍎 Well, that was thoroughly creepy.…
OOC for all #Fatal #Radiant Fan fic Rp Parody accts. My names Kat, Katie, Katelyn however you wish to call me. @AlexsBatCave #Fatal #Radiant (OOC/MC 21 +)
I’m in the mood for some campy horror and I’m looking for something that is fast paced and engaging. I love a good slasher movie in the style of Night of The Mannequins by Steven Graham Jones and Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente is also an interesting read.