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Hell Hath Fury

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby

July 14, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

CN: violence against LGBTQIA+ folk Confession time: It’s been kind of a disappointing year for me in terms of reading fiction. There’s little that moves me anymore; everything feels so rote. That has little to do with contemporary writers, who are constantly twisting their genres, and more with just a continued familiarity with the tropes. Crime writing that used to entertain me when it reached the level of competent now barely moves the needle. And then, there’s S.A. Crosby. I enjoyed Blacktop Wasteland when it came out […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: crime, Razorblade Tears, S.A. Crosby, thriller, Virginia

Jake's CBR13 Review No:111 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: crime, Razorblade Tears, S.A. Crosby, thriller, Virginia ·
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad…House

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan

November 11, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A knock at the door. A series of frantic knocks at the door. Yes, It Will Just Be Us  nearly starts with “it was a dark and stormy night”. Our narrator, Sam, is a down-and-out adjunct professor of archeology barely hanging onto her sanity. After a series of upsetting events, we find her moving back to her crumbling, ancestral mansion in on the edge of a foreboding Virginia swamp. The mansion is, for all intents and purposes, haunted. It’s haunted by the living specter of her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia ·
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Tales of the Times

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

July 30, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I read two books this week, a new one I was excited about and one that I’ve been putting off for three years. Both are good. Blacktop Wasteland This one was pretty hyped. I’ve seen S.A. Crosby’s image everywhere and it was covered review-wise by all the big ticket spots, including The New York Times. I’ve had my eye on Crosby for a while, even though I had yet to read him. A chance encounter at the library helped me nab this one. It absolutely meets the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, 2016 Election, Blacktop Wasteland, crime, hillary rodham clinton, politics, Rural, S.A. Crosby, Virginia, What Happened

Jake's CBR12 Review No:121 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, 2016 Election, Blacktop Wasteland, crime, hillary rodham clinton, politics, Rural, S.A. Crosby, Virginia, What Happened ·
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