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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones

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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones	comment	Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones is a Canadian occult horror fantasy novel published in July 2019 by French-Canadian author Rebecca Maye Holiday, under the imprint Sea Holly Books. An eBook variant was made available through American company Lulu in 2021.Cassandra "Casey" Angela Harris, an American teenager and the book's main character, runs away to what she believes is a deserted island, hoping to escape her abusive stepfather and the guilt associated with the recent death of an older sister. Casey arrives at Clover Isle to find that the island is occupied by a German-American sorcerer named Desmond Trauer, who possesses a mixed trio of adolescent residents as his cohorts: Scott and Celia McDonald (two Canadian young adults who run the island's diner, both of them having psychic powers), and Holly Eryngo Nemov, a Ukrainian-Russian orphan and Desmond's apprentice. Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones addresses themes of exploitation, politics and trauma.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Casey is shocked that Holly, Scott and Celia are accepting of things such as grinding up human bones for garden fertilizer, acts of magic, and the deaths of other people.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_2dc3e97c	comment	Ghost Town: Clover Isle only has 6 residents, and is believed to be a ghost town by the mainland. Anybody who tries to travel there is drowned in a secluded waterfall, with the exception of Casey.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: None of the characters in the book are very nice. Casey manipulates Holly's kindness towards her to get him to use his magic in dangerous ways, Holly slaughters pet dogs in large numbers, and Scott and Celia have both tried to kill Holly (under possession) at least twice. Aisling is nice, but too afraid to try to stop Desmond from committing acts of evil.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Casey learns that Holly is going to live a short life and most likely die at sea due to the nature of what he's expected to do as a sea demon.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Most of the characters find less horror in demons, hellhounds and black magic and more horror in their own families, who are all either abusive, neglectful, sadistic or absent entirely.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Holly allows Desmond to sacrifice his life instead of Casey's. As it turns out, Casey's love and Desmond's magic are able to save Holly's life.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Marissa disappears and never tries to contact Holly again.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: While living on the streets in a city (ambiguous New York), Holly witnesses his street mother, Marissa, being gang-raped by multiple dock workers in the middle of the night. She later abandons Holly and disappears, joining what is implied to be a human trafficking operation. Casey's stepfather, Neil Ratley rapes her numerous times while her mother is at work. This is the primary reason for Casey running away and choosing to keep her last name.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: NOBODY has nice parents in the book, but Dana (the girlfriend of Casey's dad) gets a pass as the all-around nice lady.
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Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_ba11178f	comment	Moose and Maple Syrup: Rebecca Maye Holiday is Canadian and uses mostly Canadian spellings and slang in the book. Multiple references to Hudson's Bay point blankets, Nova Scotian wine and other Canadianisms that don't fit the book's ambiguously American scenario.
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