The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs (Hardcover)

from bellalibrarian

This is one weird book; but I really liked it! A young girl, Ivy, finds a preserved dead body in the basement of the pharmacy across the street from her hotel. The body is that of the mother of a set of very odd/unique twins named Ab and Dolph. Ivy grows older and finds that her own interests in ...

from librarybrandy

What is The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs? As a book, it's sort of what would happen if an old VC Andrews plot fell into the hands of a good writer and a better editor, and the 300 pages of gratuitous sex were removed. As a concept, the Love Curse is an excessive, obsessive mother-love, an Oedipal ...

from aputel

Strange book involving love, and human taxidermy. I liked it, anyway.

from Sullywriter

Delightfully demented and wonderfully weird.

from Librarygirl66

A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother. On an unseasonably warm Ea...