Thank you to Macmillan for the audio ARC!

This was so fun. It was creepy and entertaining. I liked the narrator and the main character. The plot was interesting the entire way through and I really enjoyed how things evolved. The ending was a bit abrupt but still satisfying.

The MC's personality was solid - her career was interesting, her commentary about bugs was actually kinda neat (and I'm a bug hater), and I liked the way she interacted with others.

T Kingfisher has this amazing ability to take a normal setting and slowly fill you with dread. I loved the contrast between the beginning of the book and the end. This wasn't gory or "scary" but it was creepy and off putting, especially toward the end.

I really love everything I've read by this author.

I loved this one so much! I adored the witty, charming, body positive, smart FMC (Sam), the fantastic imagery and use of nature. It balanced perfectly with the dark, unsettling events unfolding. I was thoroughly entertained as family secrets unraveled and Sam discovered her own strength. 4.5/5 ⭐️

This was fantastic! Sam needs a place to stay for a while so she goes home to her mother only to find that things have taken a strange turn. Her mother is not acting like herself and the house seems to have reverted to the way it was when her grandmother was still living. Not to mention the fact that vultures have taken up residence in the neighborhood. I really had a blast with this audiobook from beginning to end.

I love the thread of humor woven throughout the story and couldn’t wait to find out what was really going on. I liked how Sam’s expertise in entomology plays a role in the book and some of her observations raised a lot of questions. I thought the story was incredibly original and I loved that every time I thought I had things figured out, I quickly realized that I was completely wrong.

I listened to the audiobook and thought that Mary Robinette Kowal did an excellent job with the story. I found her voice to be very pleasant and I liked the voices she used for the various characters in this story. She did a great job of adding just the right amount of excitement into her reading which helped to bring the story to life. I believe that her narration added to my enjoyment of this wonderful story.

I would definitely recommend this book to others. I thought that many great elements came together to tell a very original and entertaining story. I hope to read more of T. Kingfisher’s work very soon.

I received a digital review copy of this book from Macmillan Audio.

This was such a fun and quick read. Nothing overall frightening going on in this story from T. Kingfisher, but it was still a creepy tale that was unnerving at times. If horror could ever be described as cozy and comforting than the author definitely nailed it with this one.
I received an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher.

I’d like to start by thanking NetGalley for the ARC of the audiobook! I haven’t been so excited about something in a long time.
I am a huge T. Kingfisher fan. I adore her spunky characters and the use of fat women as protagonists. I can identify with her characters more easily then almost any author.
A House with Good Bones was a quick, fun read! I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book especially. Toward the end, it got a little campy for me, but I thought the resolution had a lot of meaning to it, especially for this genre! Everything tied together nicely. The quick wit, laugh out loud moments, and the charming denial of Sam’s experience as she fights her scientific understanding of the world with the unexplainable going on around her, all come together to create a tight bond between reader and protagonist.
I recommend this book to all T. Kingfisher fans and those who are wanting to step out of their usual genre: you won’t be disappointed!

Thank you so much Macmillan Audio for an arc of A House with a Good Bones in exchange of my honest review.

Well, this was surprising!! I have to say that horror is not my favorite genre, although I have been pretty lucky with some of my horror picks and this was another one for the winners!!
The story is about Sam, an entomologist (yes, she is a doctor, and no.. it's not that kind of a doctor - as someone with a PhD I am tired of saying this exact phrase haha) that decided to stop by a few days to visit her mother in a small town in Texas because she received a phone call from her brother that their mother was acting weird.
Hold and behold, when she arrives, yes, her mother is showing a very strange and off behavior. However, as she tried to go to the bottom of the problem some odd things start to happen to her.

This book had the feat of being funny as hell and also creepy at the same time. Sam is SO FUNNY and her thoughts and how she comes to conclusions is sometimes hilarious. I swear I laughed at some moments in this book. However, when the house starts to haunt her as well, I was pretty grossed out about it.
PSA: if you have aversion of insects I would caution you about this book because it does have them as a first point of horror element.
All the characters are really well developed and I enjoyed immensely her relationship with her mother and with her mother's handyman. (But no.. there is no romance in this story).
Overall is short but well rounded and written horror story with sprinkles of comedy and a bit of fantasy that I read in one sitting!!

I love light Horror when it’s well done, and no one is doing it better right now than T.Kingfisher.

This is such a fun and lovable read, with top-notch humor and charming, wonderful characters.

Kingfisher does an exceptionally good job at marrying the creepy with the humorous, and the tone is consistently hilarious without ever veering into obnoxious.

The big reveal and ending were a bit fuzzy around the edges for my taste (a common problem in Horror, in my opinion), but this didnt take much away from my overall enjoyment of the story.

And as someone who is a big time vulture enthusiast, I was so happy to see them feature heavily here. I loved Hermes so much.

This is a good read for those (like me) who like the creepiness of Horror but are put off by gruesome violence and icky predatory stuff. This may be a bit much for you if you are very scared of bugs, but otherwise, it’s the perfect balance of creepy enough to keep you the fun kind of scared without being at all upsetting.

If you’re able to read this way, I highly recommend the audiobook version, which has an absolutely fantastic narrator.

"A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones explores the deep, dark roots of family.
Sam Montgomery is worried about her mother. She seems anxious, jumpy, and she’s begun making mystifying changes to the family home on Lammergeier Lane. Sam figures it has something to do with her mother’s relationship to Sam’s late, unlamented grandmother.
She’s not wrong.
As vultures gather around the house and frightful family secrets are unearthed under the rosebushes, Sam struggles to unravel the truth about the house on Lammergeier Lane before it consumes her and everyone else who stands in its way…"

My Thoughts:
This was my first T Kingfisher book and it won't be my last. Well paced with great characters I was fully engaged in the story from the beginning. It had a little bit of everything horror, fantasy, mystery, family relationships; I would struggle to put it in just one genre. But that is the beauty of this story, it takes you on a ride that allows you to experience it's magic without any expectations, just pure entertainment.
If you like a story that's a little different, fast paced, and just a fun read - this is the one for you.

Thank you to @netgalley, and @macmillan.audio for the gifted copy of this book.

What a delightfully dark and twisty story! Bring on the roses and the vultures! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is my first book by Kingfisher, and I was so immersed in the story from the beginning that I listened in 2 sittings. . The audio narration by Mary Robinette Kowal added to the experience and brought the characters to life even more.
The protagonist, Sam and a robust set of characters that live on her Mom’s street bring weirdness, sarcasm, a few laughs, and gothic horror to this fantastic haunted house novel. I am really looking forward to reading more of Kingfishers backlist!
Thanks to @netgalley and MacMillan Audio for the advance listeners copy.

Absolutely loved this! T. Kingfisher did a great job blending the ominous, tense vibe with a very sarcastic protagonist. (The narrator nailed the tone of the protagonist-highly recommend pairing this with the audio.) This book takes it's time building the tension of the feeling that everything is not okay. While I didn't find this book completely scary, I adored the consistent eerie feeling and goosebumps. Also, if you are a person that is afraid of bugs, buckle up!.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for letting me review this book!

This was a great horror story, I couldn’t put it down. T. Kingfisher is now an auto buy author for me. The main character was sarcastic and hilarious, I literally laughed out loud at times, which during a horror novel doesn’t happen very often, but it made me happy! The struggle to accept what was happening was written in a fantastical descriptive way. And holy monkeys, I was not prepared.

Sam is an archaeologist entomologist, which is a fancy way to say she digs at sites for bugs and looks for clues about life. Unfortunately for her, her dig found unexpected human remains right away, and she was furloughed until they were identified and properly and respectfully taken care of. With her apartment occupied for the next 6 months, she heads to her mom’s house. Only… it’s different. And her mom is acting strangely. Is her mom having a breakdown, or is there something more sinister at play here?

Thank you @Netgalley for the ARC of A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher. This is my first book by the author and it definitely won't be my last. She has been on my list of authors to read, so I was excited to be approved for the ARC. Thiis book was a slow burn and creepy. It started out with small unexplained occurances and then the ending took a big turn that was unexpected.

Sam is staying with her mother in her family home and strange things start happening and her mother acts out of character. Sam tries to find what is behind this and unveils secrets that are terrifying.

This was a funny, unique book. The characters made me chuckle with the funny come backs and comments.
In this story, the history of the family has Induced future chaos to which magic has been controlling. But what will happen once the magic stops?
This was a very enjoyable book with a surprisingly unique ending, lots of giggles and a need to keep the pages turning.
I recommend this book to those looking for a lighthearted read.

I adore T. Kingfisher. "A House with Good Bones" was an absolute delight. T. Kingisher creates quirky, clumsy, real characters that are unique and fun. Horror isn't one of my favorite genres, and the blurb didn't quite entice me but I am SO glad I gave it a shot anyways.

Sam, an archaeoentomologist (dead bug scientist), gets furloughed from work when they find human remains on their dig. With her apartment leased out for the foreseeable future, she decides to move back in with her mom until work starts up again. Her brother raised some concern about their mother's mental state from his last visit & when Sam arrives at her childhood home, things are a bit unsettling.... her mother is on edge, the house is now southern-traditional (very unlike her mom), there are no insects in sight and a giant vulture is standing guard watching their house.

"A House with Good Bones" is a twist on the classic haunted house story. There's dark family secrets mixed with classic controlling old southern grandma charm (or lack of charm really). The cast of characters is bewitching, we have: a lovable goof that tends the garden, a wacky conspiracy-theorist neighbor, a witch down the street with a gaggle of vultures (who have A LOT of personality ... looking at you Hermes), an academic obsessed with bugs, a garden of overgrown roses (yes, they have a personality of their own), a sweet older lady, an evil (nude) warlock and everything in between (if you could imagine!). It was fun and fresh as is expected from T. Kingfisher!

The twists weren't particularly twisty but it felt purposeful...the writing was on the wall and as the reader you were more "in" on it than the characters. The horror elements were mostly fantasy based and fairly low-stakes.

All in all, it was a quirky delight - fun and funny, while still being a bit perturbing! I loved the insect and vulture facts that were layered throughout the story too. I guess it is time for me to read T. Kingfisher's entire backlist.

Sam is headed back to her home town to stay with her mom while she has some time off of work. Her mom still lives in the house that she grew up in that belonged to her difficult grandmother. When Jess arrives there are small changes to the house that bring up memories of her grandmother. The house no longer reflects her mothers vibrant personality but looks disturbingly like it did when her grandmother was alive. Her mom seems a little off too. She is jumpy and is constantly looking around for something it seems. Sam takes it upon herself to uncover the truth. Is her mom suffering from some sort of a breakdown or is there something more sinister happening?

Once again Kingfisher creates a creepy atmosphere that draws you in to the story. The interactions between the characters and Sam's determination to uncover the truth are the driving force in this book. The subtleties are what make Kingfisher the great storyteller that she is. Oh how I loved the vultures!!

4 ⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book was overall an enjoyable read. The main character was funny and quirky in a way that felt real and lived in, like someone you would know in real life. I loved the setting and I thought the author did a really great job building tension. You kind of knew what was going on but you didn’t know how or how the pieces would fit together. All the action happened in the last 80% of the book, and it seemed like it was resolved a little too quickly, and a lot of the personality of our main character was dropped during that time. I would have loved for the book to be longer. Just to draw out the final few scenes a little longer and had some of the humor present in the rest of the story to those chapters.

This was a very interesting and unique book while the premise was a little predictable the ending was not and Sam was such a relatable, like able character it made for a quick read that I enjoyed very much. Would absolutely recommend to friends and will likely purchase for myself
Thank you

This was such a fun new installment from Kingfisher! Their books always deliver on the fun side of horror and I really enjoyed listening to an audiobook of their work for the first time!

What I really liked about this book was how the story and the narrator contributed to the incredibly creepy atmosphere in this novel. I truly enjoyed feeling like I was IN the story along with the characters.

Thank you to T. Kingfisher, Macmillan Audio, and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy of "A House With Good Bones" for an honest review.

I fell in love with T. Kingfisher recently reading "What Moves The Dead" for an end-of-2023 Challenge Read and was so moved I had to snap up the forthcoming arcs for her books being published this year. It was a perfect move on my part, following that intuition and drive off the most recent read as I devoured this new novella in the space of a little less than two days.

Shoutout to the amazing Mary Robinette Kowal, who did a marvelous job of giving presence, voice, and very different feelings to all the characters she narrated. They were flawless, and I got happily lost in all the voices she did for them.

I loved the spiral twists and turns. I loved our unapologetic heroine being proud of being fat, being drawn to a life not focused on marriage/children, and being fiercely complete as she was, following her truth. I loved the reflection on down-home Southern values, the good and the bad in them. I loved the decidedly creepy slow lead-up with the house, the roses, the grandmother, the "Witch" down the road, and the "underground" children.

I don't want to give any spoilers, but I definitely advise reading it!

I actually really enjoyed this book. It was my first southern Gothic style, and it was a bit suspenseful, I will check trigger warnings , - death, mentions of racism and such but it wasn’t heavily involved. I did not find a scary, but some stuff might be to others. It was also hilarious! I loved every character they just came off the page. I am surprised about how much I really enjoyed the fuck it was a change for me I usually read contemporary romance and fantasy books but this was refreshing and super fun. I really enjoyed it and will be seeking out more books by this author.