Though there are some moments of excessive exposition, Valente packs in enough charm, curiosity, and foreboding to make this worthwhile. A masterful late reveal proves this to be a clever reworking of a famous story, reframing all that came before. The neighborhood had so many rules to obey, or else there were consequences. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver A Shirley Jackson Award finalist A Locus Award finalist Sophia was made for him. The town is perfect, and so is everything in it. Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. The setting felt like an old era, with a suburban housewife atmospheric aura. This turns out to be the case when Sophia discovers a mysterious silver hairbrush and a dark tangle of hair in a locked drawer of their home and her fairy tale perception begins to dissolve. COMFORT ME WITH APPLES is a short story about a seemingly perfect marriage that isnt all its cut out to be. But even as the reader takes in the frothy, enchanted atmosphere, there are hints that Sophia is teetering in an illusion that will soon launch her into darkness. Sophia's life is basically a fairy tale, complete with a beloved husband at her side. The rules in Arcadia are strange and specific, forbidding, among other things, dancing and the building of structures for beekeeping, but all are said to be in favor of purity and harmony. Sophia lives in the upscale gated community of Arcadia Gardens, a supposed utopian oasis under the management of the Arcadia Gardens Homeowners Association. This gem of a novella from Valente (The Past Is Red) packs a lot of intrigue into a brief page count.
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