I'm gonna try and actually get some headway on this literary ulcer of a novel, so I'll be competing as a rogue in LMS IV! (is it IV? I don't know oh god) There are So many Holes, and i want to Die.
The Worst Summary Ever, Full of Holes and ????? ? ? ? ??
Ophelia Kilitch is the epitome of other. Married to a man she doesn't love to provide financial security for her family, she spends her days pursuing an affair with her gardener, visiting her ailing father, and ignoring the stares of her husband's household staff directed at the horns sprouting from her forehead. Her 'affliction', as her mother calls it, marks Ophelia as a 'lovely'--a dwindling race of people said to have descended from the stars themselves. It isn't until Ophelia discovers a crumbling cathedral in the woods behind her husband's manor that she encounters more of her kind; lovelies who tell her she is a bad omen and an indicator of the worst of luck.
It's only when strange things begin happening in Kilitch Manor that Ophelia begins to suspect they may not be wrong. She's plagued by apocalyptic visions, strange noises in the night, and mysterious, hidden creatures in her bedroom. These all twine around a seemingly bland husband who becomes more secretive and sinister by the day, and who, Ophelia suspects, may have motives for marrying her that extend beyond charity. Above all looms a god locked away since the beginning of time, and whose return may usher in the end of it.
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