[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]This book is somewhat of an oddball: part essay, part horror story, part reflection about the writer’s craft and what bringing a story into the world involves.The book the author-protagonist talks about is Mary Shel...
The final book in the Raven Mysteries reaches almost as high as the first book and higher than any of the middle ones, mainly due to the introduction of Rob the Rival Raven and a level of insanity that renders the events of previous books almost normal seeming...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley.]This is not a happy book, and to be fair, I’m a little unsure why I requested it in the first place, since I’m usually not too keen on reading ‘realistic’ stories (the world is depressing enough as it is). Well, no: I guess I requested it because I ...
Most of us wish we had better memories. It would be nice not to blank on names and dates when under pressure. But I don’t think any of us would want a memory as perfect as Marcel Despres’. In Marcus Sedgwick’s Mister Memory, Marcel remembers everything from the time he was born (even before if we ca...
Charles Jackson is a British military doctor in Paris right after the liberation of the city during World War II. While exploring the newly freed streets, he peeks into an abandoned bunker and sees a man sucking the blood out of a corpse. Charles has no idea what he’s looking at. Is this a vampire? ...
I may be developing a mild obsession with Marcus Sedgwick’s books. Seriously, why aren’t more people talking about his work? It’s awesome. In She is Not Invisible, sixteen-year-old Laureth and her seven-year-old brother fly from their home in London to New York to find their father. He went missin...
"Gothic Thriller" prangt auf dem Titelbild - aber in meinen Augen ist das Buch weniger ein Thriller als ein ungewöhnlicher, atmosphärisch dichter Schauerroman, der sich mit existentiellen Fragen beschäftigt: Wenn wir unsere letzte Reise antreten, was erwartet uns auf der anderen Seite, Himmel oder H...
Have you ever gotten the feeling that a book was written specifically for you? Like, if you made a list of everything you love in a book, this one book could check everything off the list? I think Midwinterblood is that book for me. It seriously has everything I want: a remote setting, a lot of de...
I got this book for cheap, used, but looked brand new on Thrift Books. Click here for 15% off your first order I. Loved. This. Book.More than I expected to love this book. I started reading it at work, I work as a customer service rep, and when things are slow, rather than doing things that requir...
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