‘Innamorata’ Author on That Shocking Ending, Book 2 Plans and Why She’d Prefer a ‘Castlevania’-Style Adaptation to Live Action

By Jennifer Maas

Jennifer Maas

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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Ava Reid‘s “Innamorata,” released March 17 by Penguin Random House.

Ava Reid’s latest novel, “Innamorata,” ended with such a twist that the author says she would do a $1,000 bank transfer to any reader who was able to predict it.

The epic fantasy novel, released Tuesday from the “A Study in Drowning” and “Lady Macbeth” author, saw her main character, Agnes, slaughtered and posthumously raped by her love Liuprand on the orders of her cousin Marozia, then left dead in the bowels of Castle Crudele. But before the book ends, our omniscient narrator reveals an even more shocking end: Agnes, thought to be barren, is now growing life inside her corpse.

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