Unfortunate Creatures: a heart-ripping standalone gothic fantasy crossover novel
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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.
Surrounded by university students obsessed with the discovery of a rare element with magical potential, Crissa challenges her wealthy rival and his friends to a competition in a remote mansion to perform the most daring magical act they can - anything to get her hands on the element. Because Crissa has one motive: bring her soulmate back to life.
Having stolen Emres' heart from his freshly buried corpse, she has five days to build him a body and tap into the element. But as the experiments grow bolder, strange and grisly things start happening around the house. The building's enigmatic and handsome resident, Loren, seems to know more about what's going on than he's letting on and understands Crissa better than anyone - except Emres.
But when the group is gruesomely attacked, Crissa faces the ultimate choice: resurrect her lost love, or save her friends but risk losing Emres forever . . .
Have your heart ripped out with this exciting new gothic fantasy Unfortunate Creatures, Frankenstein meets Starling House for a crossover audience (16+), from Sunday Times bestselling author Holly Race
Praise for Unfortunate Creatures
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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 - Georgia Summers, Sunday Times bestselling author
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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. - Cassidy Ellis Salter, author of These Shattered Spires
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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. - M. A. Kuzniar, bestselling author
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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. - Kat Dunn
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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! - Courtney Smyth
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