Reviews and Comments

Thus book is very very cute. I'd say it could be read by anyone but I think that the Europeans in the audience might need a translator. I know this book is looking to be good intersex rep but honestly it's even better southern rep. It's everything that's nice about the Appalachian mountains. The community, the old world twee, the accents without bringing in the rest of it. I'd recommend it happily to any young readers in the house.

Very cute!!!

Well. Could have been better. Could have been worse. And that Angel was right - Biff is an asshole.

Interesting read! I liked how it was stylized as a collection of stories relating to the room. Certainly not the most disgusting read of extreme horror that I've read but a fun one to be sure!

Thank you McPhee for doing your best to correct the thermidorian myth around Robespierre. He deserves to be remembered accurately.

The prose doesn't sparkle, it took me 6 chapters to dort out who was who in the cast, 2 bullies ate introduced then immediately discarded and pov jumps within paragraphs with no rhyme or reason.

But it reads the way a slice of life anime feels. The stakes are low, the characters are lovable idiots, and the setting is there. If you need to scratch a magical school itch, you could do worse.

Tho meet in the street because it's on fucking sight about an American werewolf in London. /j

He was possessed by a ghost, she was abducted by aliens, can I make it any more obvious?

A very timely speculative fiction read that kept making me think of the quote from Tim Rodgers "dystopia is already here, it just isn't cute."

Chuck Palahniuk is rhe only person I'd trust to write in this style about this content. There's sort of a lot going on, between the satire, the pidgin engrish, the bathroom scene and the uhhhhh imitation united nations meet. I let this book flow over me, trying to get used to the rhythm of the prose and worries less about what it was trying to say and what the plot was. I'll admit, I had to look up the plot summary on wikipedia. I feel like this is the sort of book that's more comprehensive on repeat reading.

I sucked this book down in less than six hours. I have an addiction Grady Hendrix and I cannot lie. Just something about the yoink and twist he does on horror tropes just works for me.

And in this one, it's scary fucking puppets. If tou have a fear of dolls or puppets or masks you are about to have a horrible time. Or the best time depending on your personality. I loved how scary Pupkin was. I did grok the twist early but that's not a bad thing. Also I loved the marionette resistance because yeah. That makes sense for Boston.

The one thing that makes this a 4.5 out of 5 is that someone needs to tell Grady Hendrix he cannot keep using any WOC/POC as the third act answers person. It's a co stant in his works and it's consistently awkward.

What more is there to say on the Best of the French Revolution novels? Victor Hugo, perhaps because of his living through the histories he is writing about, understands. He understands the Revolution. Why it matters. Why 1789, 1830, 1832, 1848 mattered. How it echos through the ages.

And it soars and drops like the starling. This novel is itself a road trip. You live with it, and lets it bore you at times. You listen to the old man talk about Waterloo. You become enthralled about slang. You weep at the barricade. You stop abruptly at the chalk cover gravestone of Jean Valjean.

In it Enjolras states "my friends, the nineteenth century was great but the twentieth will be beautiful." I'm sorry. We have let down the dead. We have let down those who have come before us. We have done poorly.

I've read a lot of horror thus year, so maybe I just read this too fast or the horror just washed over me, but this was largely like a meatloaf of other more exceptional disturbing horror than a distinct flavor. It was fine.

Gruesome meditation of the Sylvia Likens case through the thin veil of fiction which even Ketchum admits is a reaction to the feelings of rage and helplessness he felt. It's interesting to have the protagonists be a kid who may or may not have been one of the participants in the case, someone who could have been complicit in something everyone must have sensed in the neighborhood.

Strangely I can vividly remembering reading a chapter one this book when I was 12, which seems young for the content.