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One Bloody Thing After Another - Joey Comeau
One Bloody Thing After Another
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Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut... show more
Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut down, Jackie doesn't know what to do but she doesn't let that stop her. She picks up the biggest rock she can carry and puts it through the window of a car. Smash. She intends to leave before the police arrive, but they're early.Ann is Jackie’s best friend, but she’s got problems of her own. Her mother is chained up in the basement. How do you bring that up in casual conversation? "Oh, sorry I've been so distant, Jackie. My mother has more teeth than she’s supposed to, and she won't eat anything that’s already dead." Ann and her sister Margaret don't have much of a choice here. Their mother needs to be fed. It isn't easy but this is family. It’s not supposed to be easy. It'll be okay as long as Margaret and Ann still have each other.Add in a cantankerous old man, his powerfully stupid dog, a headless ghost, a lesbian crush and a few unsettling visits from Jackie’s own dead mother, and you'll find that One Bloody Thing After Another is a different sort of horror novel from the ones you're used to. It’s as sad and funny as it is frightening, and it is as much about the way families rely on each other as it is about blood being drooled on the carpet. Though, to be honest, there is a lot of blood being drooled on the carpet.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781550229165 (1550229168)
Publisher: ECW Press
Pages no: 165
Edition language: English
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Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it
3.5 One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau
So. This book was kind of unpleasant. And yet I read it in one sitting, without intending to. I guess that means it was good? There are basically three storylines, each following different characters. There is Ann, her little sister Margaret, and their mother. There is Jackie, Ann's friend. And the...
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Nerdy Reading rated it
One Bloody Thing After Another is not what it seems, Joey Comeau surprise us with a fictional tale filled with gore and death. Never has a book affected me so deeply. Joey Comeau enters in the person's soul and unveils their true nature. A true master of horror that leaves you hanging with every wor...
Genosha is for lovers
Genosha is for lovers rated it
5.0
I have the original version of the book that I got off topatoco.com (it's no longer for sale, but some great other stuff is) and so I was iffy about this book.I loved the first version and it was so small and quick I thought dragging any of it out would ruin the impact some of the events had, but I ...
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