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“You really named her ‘Linnea’?” “Linnea’s a survivor.” “She dies in every movie.” “Her characters do, but she goes from movie to movie,” Letha says. “She never dies.”

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

So this was a really good book! But it had extremely large shoes to fill. My expectations weren’t that high for it, but only because I purposefully set them low knowing that living up to the genius that was My Heart is a Chainsaw was just going to be a really tall order. I feel like I need to re-read both this one and the first one pretty soon and take it slowly, and tab and annotate, because I got in my own way here. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: audiobooks, Don't Fear the Reaper, full cast audio, horror, Jade Daniels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones, the lake witch trilogy

narfna's CBR15 Review No:32 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: audiobooks, Don't Fear the Reaper, full cast audio, horror, Jade Daniels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones, the lake witch trilogy ·
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Some Shorts (Evelyn Waugh (1); Italo Calvino (1); Henry James (1); Stephen Graham Jones (1); Cassandra Khaw(1); John Grisham (1); CW Longbottom (1)

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Henry James by A Tragedy of Error

Midnight Caller by Stephen Graham Jones

Don't Turn on the Lights by Cassandra Khaw

The Tumor by John Grisham

Tears of the Anaren by CW Longbottom

Village of Islands by Jim Shepard

February 21, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Loved One “All the day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the west, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean” I rented the first disc of Six Feet Under from Blockbuster just as soon as the dvds of the first season came out. I remember that one of the first scenes of the show, and the first season of the show was weird, like the ways that the first season of Sex […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:122 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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Don’t Fear the Reaper

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

December 31, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not effect my rating or review.  I just need to give up. I am never going to be in love with Stephen Graham Jones works like my horror friends are. I have tried people. This book was just a mess. Parts of it shone, and I get why my friends like his books when you get to the shiny parts. But the whole plot just gets beyond confusing at one point. And I am so […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Stephen Graham Jones, The Lake Witch Trilogy #2

Classic's CBR14 Review No:295 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Stephen Graham Jones, The Lake Witch Trilogy #2 ·
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“Shanna was the first to go. And by ‘go’ I mean die. And by ‘die’ I mean get killed.”

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

December 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I suppose it was inevitable that I wouldn’t perfectly gel with every single thing SGJ has written. This was good, but not really my thing. At first, I was really into it because I love a chatty, informal narrator (when done well). And in the style regard, I can’t fault this book at all. It’s solid. But the story itself just didn’t really work for me. The novella opens with our main character, Sawyer, telling us about the time a prank went very wrong for […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: horror, narfna, night of the mannequins, novellas, Stephen Graham Jones

narfna's CBR14 Review No:227 · Genres: Horror · Tags: horror, narfna, night of the mannequins, novellas, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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Probably the most creative werewolf book you’ll ever read.

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

December 23, 2022 by narfna 3 Comments

Oh, dang, I thought I had written a review of this one, but going through all my 2022 books to Review Amnesty, I see I have in fact, not done so. Real quick, if you’re looking for a starter horror/starter Stephen Graham Jones, this one might actually be a great book to read. And this book isn’t even all that horrific. It’s only really classified as horror because werewolves and because Stephen Graham Jones, but it’s really a coming of age story about a young […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: audiobooks, coming-of-age, horror, mongrels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones

narfna's CBR14 Review No:221 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror · Tags: audiobooks, coming-of-age, horror, mongrels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

December 3, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

I honestly don’t know what to say about this book besides it did not hang together very well. I just could not get into it. I think the main character (Jade) was kind of insufferable for most of the book. And the interludes in between those chapters didn’t help me to stay engaged. I think this was what I said about the other books of Graham Jones’s that I read. Good thoughts, but bad execution. I put this book down several times this year because […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Stephen Graham Jones, The Lake Witch Trilogy #1

Classic's CBR14 Review No:262 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Stephen Graham Jones, The Lake Witch Trilogy #1 ·
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