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Catherine House

door Elisabeth Thomas

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"[A] delicious literary Gothic debut." â??THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE

"Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step." â?? THE WASHINGTON POST

A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly â?˘ New York magazine â?˘ Cosmopolitan â?˘ The Atlantic â?˘ Forbes â?˘ Good Housekeeping â?˘ Parade â?˘ Better Homes and Gardens â?˘ HuffPost â?˘ Buzzfeed â?˘ Newsweek â?˘ Harper's Bazaar â?˘ Ms. Magazine â?˘ Woman's Day â?˘ PopSugar â?˘ and more!

A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school's promise of prestige.

Trust us, you belong here.

Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three yearsâ??summers includedâ??completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire.

Among this year's incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual disciplineâ??only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school's enigmatic director, ViktĂłria, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she's ever had. But the House's strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the schoolâ??in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadenceâ??might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum.

Combining the haunting sophistication and dusky, atmospheric style of Sarah Waters with the unsettling isolation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Catherine House is a devious, deliciously steamy, and suspenseful page-turner with shocking twists… (meer)

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I read this because I usually check out the Edgar award nominees, so that might have given me expectations that weren't appropriate. this was definitely more of a sci-fi, fantasy type read , rather than a mystery. The writing was good, characterization adequate and the school itself was atmospherically creepy, but I somehow was expecting a bigger payoff ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
A very slow, sensual kind of novel that is part dark-academia and part mystery, although I use the word "mystery" very loosely. The synopsis of "Catherine House" seems to offer a real thrill-ride of a book, but in reality there is a quite of bit of repetition and drowsiness in the writing and story that makes everything kind of drag. It's not all bad; in fact, at times it's a pretty novel, and I think Thomas has a gift for writing some really sparse yet lush scenes, and I'm interested in what she writes next. But the plot just doesn't deliver. It's an endless loop of the main character, Ines, reflecting on her past, almost failing classes, sleeping, and wandering the grounds of her new school. Paired with an anticlimactic final act, "Catherine House" ultimately is just missing that "pizazz" element that makes the story stand out.
(edit: I think the word I was looking for is low-stakes. There were just no consequences or anything at risk for Ines for most of the novel. Her lack of enthusiasm and desire for a future left me less invested in her story arc.) ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
One of those unique set in a different weirdo world but it doesn't get super confusing in the process books. Iiked the spunky narrator. I recently read The Institute by Stephen King so it free some parallels. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
The second half of this book was really good. The first half, was decent? I felt like it laid the groundwork for what needed to happen in the last, but there was still something to be desired. I feel like this book was SO SO close to being exactly what it should have been, but it somehow missed the mark.
I do think that the author did an excellent job of making me feel a little trapped and claustrophobic, which helped to add to the setting. ( )
  lindywilson | Jan 3, 2024 |
Ok, mixed feelings on this one. There's definitely a lot to like, especially with respect to the central "idea" of the story, but the execution is just, well, bad. Spoilers marked because what I consider the premise of the story (and, in fact, that there even is a premise of the story) isn't revealed until fairly far into it and isn't mentioned in the back jacket summary, but if I didn't mention it this would be a much more negative review.
Ok, I'll start off with what I don't like, which unfortunately can be summed up as "the writing". I don't mean that Thomas is a bad writer necessarily, but this felt like an early draft—there's a lot of unrealized potential. The characters are flat, hard to differentiate from one another, and frankly almost none of them need to exist, including our narrator who, after 320 pages, I still know almost nothing about. The idea here was an interesting one—very high achieving students who nonetheless have no other options, for one reason or another—is potentially very compelling, but I never really felt that either of those things were true for anyone other than Baby, who dies about a third of the way in. The setting was likewise disappointing; the cult-like tendencies and claustrophobia were mentioned frequently, but there wasn't any follow through. It absolutely baffles me that so many people call this "atmospheric" (unless what they really mean is "mostly empty"?). Consequently I found the whole thing rather hard to get through, even though the language itself is straightforward enough and it's not particularly long.
With that being said, there's also a lot here that's surprisingly well done, especially considering the aforementioned weakness with the writing in general. Normally I dislike when a book fails to mention its central plot (let alone its whole genre), but here I think it worked really well. The revelation of information about the "new materials" is impressive and works well with the otherwise unimportant period setting, and the potential of this idea (with respect to both the world of the story and the plot) is fully realized. The whole thing is genuinely really impressive and even more so because it was so unexpected. ( )
  maddietherobot | Oct 21, 2023 |
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With its cultlike fixation on control and secrecy, it’s clear from the outset that something is deeply wrong with Catherine House. The narrative feels haunted by a sense of decay and fear.... There are shades of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock as suspense builds in the winding corridors of the house and the twisting turns of the psyche. Moody and evocative as a fever dream, “Catherine House” is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkWashington Post, Diana Abu-Jaber (betaal website) (May 15, 2020)
 
It is a coming-of-age story, a thriller, science-fiction and a Gothic novel all at once.... Catherine House employs that wonderful Gothic convention of an inexplicable sense of wrongness.... With a compelling narrator and truly inventive setting, Catherine House embraces Gothic conventions even as it defies expectation and utilizes them in new and exciting ways. It challenges the genre while embracing it and takes readers on a truly unique journey.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkBookPage, Elyse Discher (May 12, 2020)
 
Gothic horror provides the architecture for an arrestingly strange melange of speculative fiction and teen trauma in this atmospheric debut novel.... Ines’s apathy can drag but nibbling menace spurs the plot onwards.
 
For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), Catherine House is a haunting, atmospheric reflection on the discovery of self and others. At times terrifying, always gorgeously captivating, Thomas’ debut is one not to be missed, and perhaps to be revisited frequently.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkBooklist, Carolyn Ciesla (Apr 1, 2020)
 
Surreal imagery, spare characterization, and artful, hypnotic prose lend Thomas’s tale a delirious air, but at the book’s core lies a profound portrait of depression and adolescent turmoil. Fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will devour this philosophical fever dream. A
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkPublishers Weekly (Feb 12, 2020)
 

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Thriller. HTML:

"[A] delicious literary Gothic debut." â??THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE

"Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step." â?? THE WASHINGTON POST

A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly â?˘ New York magazine â?˘ Cosmopolitan â?˘ The Atlantic â?˘ Forbes â?˘ Good Housekeeping â?˘ Parade â?˘ Better Homes and Gardens â?˘ HuffPost â?˘ Buzzfeed â?˘ Newsweek â?˘ Harper's Bazaar â?˘ Ms. Magazine â?˘ Woman's Day â?˘ PopSugar â?˘ and more!

A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school's promise of prestige.

Trust us, you belong here.

Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three yearsâ??summers includedâ??completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire.

Among this year's incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual disciplineâ??only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school's enigmatic director, ViktĂłria, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she's ever had. But the House's strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the schoolâ??in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadenceâ??might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum.

Combining the haunting sophistication and dusky, atmospheric style of Sarah Waters with the unsettling isolation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Catherine House is a devious, deliciously steamy, and suspenseful page-turner with shocking twists

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