all the wrong characters in all the wrong stories, then studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward’s University. She is a lover of witchcraft, tarot, and powerful women with bad reputations, and she currently resides in Houston surrounded by antiques and dog hair. When not at her laptop spinning darkly hypnotic tales, Morgyn writes for her blog on child loss (forloveofevelyn.com), hunts for vintage treasures, and reads the darkest books she can find.
She is the author of YA novels Resurrection Girls and The Salt in Our Blood.
Morgyn's new novel is Only Spell Deep.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:
Visit Ava Morgyn's website.I’m very much a mood reader, which means I don’t like to keep a towering TBR and tend to jump around a lot between genres. Though I pretty consistently read books with darker themes—so horror, Gothic literature, dark fantasy, thrillers, and the like.
I just finished books by two of my favorite authors. I devoured Play Nice by Rachel Harrison, a contemporary horror about an influencer who inherits her late mother’s old haunted house and tries to remodel it for views. It was a dark, winding adventure through childhood trauma, unreliable memories, attempts to control the narrative, grief, and the phenomenon of women not being believed. Highly recommend!
I also just turned the last page on Eve Chase’s The Midnight Hour—a beautiful mystery set in London’s Notting Hill that jumps between time periods and points of view as it unravels the secrets at the heart of one family’s legacy of love, betrayal, loss, and second chances. Eve’s prose is stunning and her stories are like intricate knots waiting to be untied. I treasure them.
The Page 69 Test: The Bane Witch.
Q&A with Ava Morgyn.
The Page 69 Test: Only Spell Deep.
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