The Lamb by Lucy Rose | Horror Fiction

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The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Released February 2025
Source: Purchased from local bookstore
Get it at your local library or see more @ Goodreads

Are you feeling a bit gloomy? Want to feel worse? I have a book rec for that.

This book was the Horror Spotlight discord pick for May and it took me all of May (and a few days of June) to force myself through it. If I weren’t so damn nosy and stubborn I might’ve done a dnf. And I nearly did but after reading the spoilers in the chat I had to know how it all got there and I switched to audio to finish and then back to the physical book when I ran out of hours (curse you again Spotify and your weird plan to get more $ out of me with “top offs”). So even though it took me half my life to finish, it kept pulling me back in despite my threats to quit it. And in the end, I have no regrets about sticking with it.

It’s a bleak story about a little cannibal family. Before someone screams that I’ve ruined the book for everyone, this is not a spoiler as you learn this as soon as you crack open the book. It’s bloody and gross, yep it is, but it’s also emotionally painful as it depicts their day to day life and is really the story of an innocent little girl tragically born to a mother who never wanted to be one and who apparently suffers from an unending hunger. I think that hunger is an extreme case of narcissism and it may enrage you. But feeling things is better than not feeling them, right?

It’s hard to read on multiple levels but I’m glad I finished because that ending was something I won’t soon forget even though my memory is pretty shit.

Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐



Publisher Plot Synopsis (if you need one, be warned because sometimes they can spoil it all!)

Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door—"strays," Mama calls them, people who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she picks apart their bodies and toasts them off with some vegetable oil.

But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her own bid for freedom.

With this gothic coming-of-age tale, novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.

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