![]() ![]() Parts of this book are incredibly disturbing. So she decides to go to make things right. ![]() Jesse, her childhood crush, who grew distant from her as well after one night in a haunted house went so, so wrong. Mira is obviously like, what the heck, Celine, are you crazy, and initially refuses, but a phone call from Jesse changes her mind. When Celine gets married, she phones up Mira and asks her to come to her wedding, which is being held at a recently restored plantation house. Mira grew up with childhood friends, Jesse and Celine, but then they grew apart and she moves away. It's kind of like a cross between Octavia Butler's Kindred and Stephen King's Rose Red, in that it's a haunted house story, but also a scathing criticism on the cruelty of slavery, and the way that future generations pave over the past, reimagining it as a picturesque idyll instead of what it really was. WHEN THE RECKONING COMES is so good, I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't have way more reviews. ![]()
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