![]() ![]() Charles, however, is haunted, by his past relationship with Alonso, by the experiments he is now a part of, and by a figure in white. Alonso is convinced that somehow they can find a cure for the curse of the Villarcas, and that the answer lies in blood and genetics, a new field for the time. Together, they begin a series of experiments that would be at home in Frankenstein, with poor bunnies as their subjects. Charles Danforth arrives at Rawblood at the behest of his friend, Alonso Villarca. However, we don’t get to read Iris’s story for long, as we are sent back in time to 1881, when Dr. The Villarcas have a curse in their veins, haunted in their own home, but unable to leave. After Tom’s father dies, Iris and Tom begin to get closer, until Iris falls ill, and believes it to be an illness of her family line, as told to her by her father. Almost completely secluded, Iris has made friends with a neighbor, Tom, in complete defiance of her father. When we first meet her, Iris Villarca is an eleven-year-old girl living alone with her father at their Devon estate, Rawblood. I’m really not sure why – it should hit every fangirl button I have between the gothic aspects, the horror elements and the author’s beautiful turn of phrase. So where to start? I’m not sure which is most prevalent, but in The Girl from Rawblood, Catriona Ward has written a combination of horror, gothic, mystery and a hint of tragic romance that could be utterly fascinating, but just did not work for me. ![]()
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