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The Family Condition

by Cody Lakin Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT

A family legacy with a monstrous edge

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A family legacy with a monstrous edge

Elodie Villeneuve’s family carries a strange genetic condition, making her relationship with Bennet inseparable from the history she would rather leave behind. As the two try to understand their pasts and build a life together, Bennet’s encounter with Elodie’s family brings him into a reality he cannot easily explain. The premise joins intimate relationship drama to creature-centered horror, using the meeting with a partner’s family as the threshold into questions about inheritance, identity, and where the human ends and the monstrous begins.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Horror readers interested in monsters and family legacies
  • Readers drawn to relationship-centered stories with supernatural elements
  • Those interested in themes of identity and the boundary between people and monsters

Themes

Family inheritanceLove and devotionIdentityMonsters and humanity

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Book overview

"A surprisingly affecting tale of terror." - Kirkus Reviews

Elodie Villeneuve has monsters in her family. When Bennet and Elodie first meet, the connection is immediate and intense. Both of them are trying to escape the shadows of their pasts, hoping to make sense of their lives in the present. Although they're new to each other, their devotion runs deep. But the shadow that hangs over Elodie-the disturbing legacy of her lineage and the strange genetic condition that haunts it-cannot be ignored for long. Meeting the family of your significant other is never easy. For Bennet, it means coming face-to-face with a reality outside his understanding. His curiosity has led him to strange, sometimes dangerous places before, but never to the precipice where love and darkness meet, along the blurry line that divides people from monsters.

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