A review by emperorcupcake
The Nesting by C.J. Cooke

dark

3.25

I mostly enjoyed this, the atmosphere is fabulous, but I don't feel like it all came together in the end. I'm not going to get into spoilers, but the prologue of the book made no sense with the rest of it, and I didn't find the conclusion satisfying. Like what did it mean, exactly? There was too much was-it-all-a-dream and is-she-crazy stuff (my two least favourite tropes!) for me to be fully on board. And the only character I really cared about was the bird. I will say, as a seasonal mood reader I struggle with what to read in non-vibey months like November, and this was actually a <i>perfect</i> November read! It just felt Novembery? Like dark-woodsy but not Christmassy? So thank you for that, book!

I will definitely read from C. J. Cooke again, I loved The Lighthouse Witches and her writing is wonderfully atmospheric.