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Apr 11, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Jacqueline Holland |Isabelle McConville
Hope and Love: A Guest Post from Jacqueline Holland From Dracula to Carmilla and What We Do in the Shadows, we’ve always loved a good vampire story. Take a bite out of this Monthly Pick and enjoy every minute of of this fresh take on one of our favorite kinds of monsters. In her exclusive essay below, Jacqueline Holland writes all about the inspiration for her remarkable debut and the process of its creation.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jacqueline Holland
It begins during a tuberculosis breakout in Upstate New York in the 1830s that leaves 10-year-old Anna an orphan.
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May 14, 2023 | 
grimdarkmagazine.com | Jacqueline Holland
Last Updated on July 15, 2024Let’s say you’re riding in an airplane, or better yet, a crowded bus. You and your fellow passengers are all pressed up against each other, nudging and bumping at the knees and elbows, mumbling apologies, trying not to overhear one another’s cellphone conversations, trying not to glance at the pages of one another’s books (or trying, at least, not to get caught glancing).
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
journalgazette.net | Jessa Maxwell |Jacqueline Holland |Kevin Jared Hosein |Alice J. Winn
The following debut works of fiction are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The Golden Spoon”by Jessa Maxwell During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jacqueline Holland
Jacqueline Holland’s ambitious debut, The God of Endings, weaves two storylines, one starting in the 1830s, another taking place in 1984, as the narrator, known variously as Anna, Anya, and finally Collette, tells the tale of her inhumanly long life spanning more than 150 years. In the vein of V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Holland’s novel asks existential questions about immortality and the purpose of existence.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
musalmantimes.com | Jacqueline Holland
Narrative force, such as it is, comes from the looming specter of Czernobog, the “god of endings.” An ancient demon, Czernobog appears in dreams, a portent of some forthcoming shift in Collette’s life. But there is no supernatural face-off, no grand magical battle. Instead, Czernobog haunts Collette’s present, pitting an actual vampire against emotional vampires — Leo’s parents, a high-earning father and pill-addled mother. They will fight for dominance over the life of an ever-suffering child.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Fran Hoepfner |Jacqueline Holland
Book Review|A Vampire in the Schoolhouse Calls Class to Sessionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/the-god-of-endings-jacqueline-holland.htmlFictionIn Jacqueline Holland’s debut novel, “The God of Endings,” a preschool teacher with a terrible secret fights her most demonic craving for 150 years. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jacqueline Holland |Judy Blume |Colleen Hoover
by Jacqueline Holland ‧ Following a vampire across more than 200 years, this novel considers “whether this world and life in it is a kindness or an unkindness, a blessing or a curse.” At the age of 10, Anna faces illness and death daily as an epidemic sweeps through her town. After the deaths of her father and brother, and when she's at her sickest, her grandfather arrives.
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Mar 6, 2023 | 
books.apple.com | Jacqueline Holland
Publisher Description “A new kind of vampire story, and the result is a surprising and spellbinding tale.” —Laura Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone“Great for fans of Interview with a Vampire and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.” —Library Journal Suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking debut spans history, weaving a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
startribune.com | Jacqueline Holland
Given a chance at immortality, would you take it? Twin Cities author Jacqueline Holland threads the question throughout her debut novel, "The God of Endings." Her protagonist, Collette LeSange, is the headmistress of an elite fine arts school in rural New York. LeSange is also a vampire whose resentment over her involuntary immortality influences her human relationships. The novel opens in the 1830s.
