🫀 Frankenstein meets Starling House in this exciting new gothic fantasy standalone novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Holly Race 🐦⬛
How far would you go to bring back the one you love?
Eighteen-year-old Crissa Blackwood is mourning the brutal death of her soulmate, Emres Trovic.
Set in a university city obsessed with the potential for magic, Crissa challenges her wealthy rival and their friends to spend a week sequestered in a remote mansion in the mountains to perform the most daring magical act they can. But Crissa has her own motive; she has stolen Emres’ heart from his freshly buried corpse to bring him back to life.
As the group’s experiments with magic grow bolder, strange things start happening around the house. The building’s enigmatic resident, Loren, who seems to understand her better than anyone, knows something about it. But as the group is attacked, Crissa faces the ultimate choice: resurrect her lost love, or save her friends and risk losing Emres forever . . .
A girl challenges her rival to perform the most daring magical act they can in a remote mansion in order to bring her boyfriend back from the dead, only to fall for someone very much alive in the process . . .
TROPES
Obsessive Romance ❤️🔥
Creepy Manor House ☠️
Morally Grey FMC 🖤
Love Triangle 🛆 💞
Family Secrets 🤐
PRAISE FOR HOLLY RACE
‘Luscious and luminous’ Tasha Suri
‘Slick, sensuous, yet sharp enough to cut’ Lyra Selene
‘Absolutely incredible’ Francesca May
How far would you go to bring back the one you love?
Eighteen-year-old Crissa Blackwood is mourning the brutal death of her soulmate, Emres Trovic.
Set in a university city obsessed with the potential for magic, Crissa challenges her wealthy rival and their friends to spend a week sequestered in a remote mansion in the mountains to perform the most daring magical act they can. But Crissa has her own motive; she has stolen Emres’ heart from his freshly buried corpse to bring him back to life.
As the group’s experiments with magic grow bolder, strange things start happening around the house. The building’s enigmatic resident, Loren, who seems to understand her better than anyone, knows something about it. But as the group is attacked, Crissa faces the ultimate choice: resurrect her lost love, or save her friends and risk losing Emres forever . . .
A girl challenges her rival to perform the most daring magical act they can in a remote mansion in order to bring her boyfriend back from the dead, only to fall for someone very much alive in the process . . .
TROPES
Obsessive Romance ❤️🔥
Creepy Manor House ☠️
Morally Grey FMC 🖤
Love Triangle 🛆 💞
Family Secrets 🤐
PRAISE FOR HOLLY RACE
‘Luscious and luminous’ Tasha Suri
‘Slick, sensuous, yet sharp enough to cut’ Lyra Selene
‘Absolutely incredible’ Francesca May
Reviews
Crackles with magic, yearning and imagination. This queer-positive twist on Frankenstein would delight Mary Shelley, with its boundary-pushing scientists, gothic mansions and star-crossed lovers. Holly Race shines an unflinching light on the hopes and horrors inherent to the human condition, and delivers so many twists and turns, I was left breathless. Magnificent
Twisty, dark and heart-wrenching. A gothic feast that crackles with magic and science as it explores what it means to be human. This Frankenstein retelling will leave you as obsessed as the morally grey main character in her pursuit of love
This is the Edgar Allan Poe meets Frankenstein gothic novel of my dreams - Holly Race is a diabolical genius, and the only thing unfortunate about this book is that it had to end!
When it comes to ripping out hearts, Race never fails to succeed!
Unfortunate Creatures is a haunting feast of labyrinthine corridors, desperate love, and the consequences of cutthroat ambition with no bounds. What will you do for the one you love the most? Crissa's answer is everything. Gothic and glorious, with a gory heart at its core
Wild, frantic, feverish, Unfortunate Creatures is a seduction of a book. In turns ravenously hungry, and bittersweet and aching, I was entranced. Race will break your heart, then eat it whole
With its bloody core of toxic adoration and deeply unsettling power dynamics, Unfortunate Creatures is a disturbing, viscera-filled child of Frankenstein in which death is a plaything and love turns even the best people into monsters. I stayed up late to devour it from tragic start to gut-punch ending
Heart-breaking and haunting, with impeccable atmosphere and characters you will fall in love with. Unfortunate Creatures is a gothic masterpiece
With the haunting, harried precision of an unhealthy obsession, Race's Unfortunate Creatures takes a scalpel to humanity's darkest questions, carving deep into the point where grief, ambition and monstrosity converge. Gorgeous, gruesome and gloriously Gothic