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No insurance money was forthcoming.

The Amulet by Michael McDowell

November 3, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a weird, unsavory, nasty horror novel from the late 1970s. It takes place in a small town in Alabama in the mid 1960s. The town is home to a munitions plants turned rifle factory, that supplies jobs for most of the citizens and rifles for the local army base, getting newly drafted soldiers ready to go to Vietnam. During a rifle practice session, a local boy is using one of those rifles when it misfires, explodes and horrifically injured him, destroying his face […]

DI Gravel is interesting, but I’m not sure he’s great at his job?

Portraits of The Dead (DI Gravel Book 1) by John Nicholl

A Cold Cold Heart (DI Gravel Book 3) by John Nicholl

October 30, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Shockingly I started the DI Gravel series at book number two! It was actually really good (as far as I can remember). I definitely remember liking DI Gravel as a character. Like I said in the title though, I’m not sure he’s great as an investigator. I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in the second book, and I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in this first book either. The bad dude kidnaps a college student named Emma and keeps her a […]

Something that happened in the ’80’s can be history, right?

Robert Pickton: The Pig Farmer Serial Killer (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked The Nation Book 1) by Chris Swinney

October 30, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my friend got me started listening to a true crime podcast based on the most recent story she heard. It was about a pig farmer named Robert Pickton. He was apparently a semi-notorious Canadian serial killer. I didn’t even know that Canada had serial killers! She told me about a book that they kept mentioning, but it was like $15 and I didn’t feel like spending any money that day, so I borrowed the Kindle Unlimited version of the story from Amazon. Well, it […]

My Pen is Dry, The Door is Open, and Something is Waiting

Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry

October 30, 2019 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

This is a modern novel that strikes the perfect feeling of a Gothic novel in the style of Poe or Shelly. It is eerie and creepy with a ton of atmosphere and most of the fear and horror coming from not jump scares, but just that feeling that something is going to happen. Also, the monster is the humans. It’s always the humans… but not always int he way you think. Fair warning, I don’t give any major spoilers ahead, but this is a very […]

You probably don’t want this, actually.

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

October 29, 2019 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Remember ‘Cat Person’? The viral short story published in The New Yorker last year that literally everyone you know sent to you with the message ‘Oh my god, you HAVE to read this!’? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, has published a collection of short stories with the tempting title ‘You Know You Want This’. I heard about the book via a podcast interview with the author herself. It centered on Roupenian’s shock and amazement at the juggernaut that Cat Person became, and her new book […]

DNF at 10 Percent

They Thirst by Robert McCammon

October 29, 2019 by Classic 1 Comment

I did not finish this at 10 percent. I got nothing to say besides the writing hurt my head. I either love Robert R. McCammon or I don’t. This is definitely one of the ones I don’t love. There is too much thrown out and none of it makes much sense. This is a shame though because the prologue was so freaking good. And then when it moves to LA I just started to feel overwhelmed. Since I only got up to 10 percent I […]

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