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Spoilt Creatures Review

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This book came to be through Goodreads, as one of my friends had it on her TBR and the plot looked interesting enough for me to buy it the next time I went to my local Waterstones. The plot follows Iris, a newly single thirty something year old woman, fresh off her breakup and living with her mother, working a mediocre job as she learns of Breach House. This place was promised to be a kind of commune for women who want to get off the grid and find support in other women. But once she moves to that place, it soon becomes clear that this place is not all that it was promised it would be at the start. Unfortunately, I did not care too much for this book and what was happening in it. Perhaps the issue was simply in the expectations I had of this book. I expected a more unhinged Yellowjacket style of narrative, examining how isolation and cult-like following can lead to insane outcomes, but it left me feeling quite disappointed as all the themes it touched upon were left on a pretty shallow...