I hope that vampire books are having a resurgence because I am all here for it. I adored the way that this one feels so detailed and immersive from the beginning. And Henderson has a true talent for fantasy worlds. Having adored The Year of the Witching, I was so excited for House of Hunger. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home–and fast–or its halls will soon become her grave. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery–and at the center of it all is her.Ĭountess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. Though she knows little about the far north–where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service–Marion applies to the position. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Girls of weak will need not apply.Ī young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures.

Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. To be fair, this isn’t like precisely vampires in the sense that no one really uses that word – but they drink human blood! House of Hunger is a book that I only seem to love more the more time I spend thinking about it. I have read three or four vampire stories this fall already and I am not mad about it.

House of hunger by alexis henderson