Get Rec’d with Amanda – Volume 123

Welcome back! We have an all fiction edition with mainly horror and thriller recommendations. ‘Tis the season! Any recommendations you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments! An Immaculate Deception Spooky season is fast approaching, so expect to see more horror recommendations! This is a debut Gothic horror set in 1800s Brazil with some Crimson Peak vibes. A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong. 1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road. Madalena awakens in Leandro’s sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo....