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What is Un Lun Dun?It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the …
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts …
Really clever manipulation of time and perspective that adds nicely to the sinister atmosphere. I love the ambiguity. Really well done.
2.5 rounded up to a 3. It’s messy. Lol. It’s fun though! I’m not sure I would have been as intrigued by this book without the title and cover. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t quite meet the expectation there. There is a library, and there are dead people, but those things don’t seem to be connected. In fact, a lot of stuff doesn’t feel connected. Still, Ropa is a great MC with a unique, fun voice, and there’s some interesting world building. If you like plot, we’ll there’s a lot of it here, it’s just a bit disjointed. I’m left with several questions so I might check out the sequel, but that means this is a book you probably don’t want to read if you’re not wanting to have to read multiple books to feel satisfied. I might recommend this in the future if someone is looking for a lighter read. …
2.5 rounded up to a 3. It’s messy. Lol. It’s fun though! I’m not sure I would have been as intrigued by this book without the title and cover. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t quite meet the expectation there. There is a library, and there are dead people, but those things don’t seem to be connected. In fact, a lot of stuff doesn’t feel connected. Still, Ropa is a great MC with a unique, fun voice, and there’s some interesting world building. If you like plot, we’ll there’s a lot of it here, it’s just a bit disjointed. I’m left with several questions so I might check out the sequel, but that means this is a book you probably don’t want to read if you’re not wanting to have to read multiple books to feel satisfied. I might recommend this in the future if someone is looking for a lighter read. It would work well as a chaser for Tansyn Muir’s Locked Tomb books, for example.
House of Earth and Blood meets The Witch's Heart in Rebecca Ross’s brilliant first adult fantasy, set on the magical …
"When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about …
Extra star because I’ve had some of these thoughts but it’s really only two stars because it’s not poetry and I am really starting to get annoyed by similar “collections”. This would have been better as a Twitter account.
Seems like it was perfectly calibrated to appeal to a demographic I am often mistakenly placed in but I guess I’m enough not that demographic to kind of hate it.
Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares!
What destiny awaits them after the screaming?
After abruptly departing from …
"The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van, inspired by his years living in a small town …
When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart …
Extra star because it was fun. Very weird, quick read, with just enough social commentary to keep me interested.
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep into …
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if …
Rounding down to 2 stars. The middle of the book especially showed some promise but I think it gets a title too caught up in its own comic-book-ish plot. There’s too much action with too little meaning, and the “climax” was the least interesting part of the entire book. I like the message of the ending, but honestly I was disappointed by the e tire last third of the book. I don’t feel like this book explored the ideas it presents as interestingly or as thoroughly as Crouch’s previous books did the ideas they centered around. It’s just… a bit of a flop.
Rounding up to three stars. Not what I was expecting and lacking a lot in what made Horrorstor and, to a lesser extent, Southern Book Club so much fun to read. The ending is what bumped it up to three for me, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it felt like a let down to most readers. The best part of the whole book was the Lemon Brothers, and especially what happens with Christian. That aspect of the book almost makes me want to give it 4 stars.
