Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Jessica Verday's Of Monsters and Madness:

I spared you the description of the intestines, which was especially good. And by “especially good,” I mean especially gross. While I wasn’t entirely won over by her book, Verday proved even just on that first page that she has the key to the gothic genre—the juxtaposition of the beautiful and the grotesque—DOWN.