Starling House is a haunted house story about monsters that lurk in imagined places and those that exist in the harsh light of the real world.
“There is no such thing as curses or cracks in the world. Maybe that’s all a good ghost story is, a way of handing out consequences to the people who never got them in real life.”is many things: A ghost story, a romance, a family drama, a haunted house saga, an exploration of rage and exploitation. It’s a perfect read for Fall, full of dark shadows and foreboding vibes, a story about the monsters that lurk in imagined places and those that exist in the harsh light of the real world.
As Opal gets to know Arthur and learns more about the original Eleanor Starling, who built the residence that’s named for her and penned a popular children’s book calledbefore essentially vanishing, she slowly begins to unearth more about truths herself, her strange connections to the house, and the family she never knew.
Opal is not always the easiest heroine to like—she’s prickly, cynical, jaded, and selfish, with the sort of baggage that comes from living a life where it’s difficult to trust in anything beyond yourself and your own abilities. She makes plenty of difficult and often downright dumb decisions, and frequently makes her own problems worse by simply refusing to communicate with those around her.
Having lost her mother in a terrible accident from which she herself barely escaped, Opal now lives in a run-down motel room with Jasper and longs for nothing so much as a real home, a place where she feels she belongs, somewhere she can finally call her own. It’s part of the reason she can’t let go of the idea of Starling House, which keeps calling to her even when she knows she shouldn’t listen.
In fairness, the story tips a bit more toward the overtly magical and occasionally supernatural in it final quarter than many readers might expect, particularly when so much of the book—and the Starling family’s history within it—is grounded in real-world wrongs, specifically Kentucky’s history of trauma and slavery. Yet, the deft way Harrow gives voice to both the pain buried under almost every version of Eleanor Starling’s story and the hidden strength inherent in Opal’s is masterfully done.
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