NetGalley Review: Marionette by Antonia Rachel Ward

Marionette by Antonia Rachel Ward

My Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩ 

This should have been a homerun: spooky premise, sexy historical...all good stuff. Had it not been a short story and therefore a fast read, this might have been a DNF for me.

As stated, the premise is interesting. Classic mystical show, add a little ghost possession and some obsessive love-this feels like a recipe for success. Some of it certainly was, there were threads of what the story could have been.

Overall though, the story was predictable, the so-called "erotica" was only racey if you think anything queer-coded is, as the kids say "so extra," and much of it felt very "men writing women."

Published on 16 August 2025 by Brigids Gate Press LLC

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