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This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

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This whole book irked my soul. There was a lot of things happening in this one and i just felt wholly unsatisfied by the never ending attempts to break the curse and the character of Jemma forgiving people for the crap that they did. I don’t know what the author was going on for in this one, but I think that it could have pushed more on the horror aspects of this one or gone full V.C. Andrews it would have worked better. There were […]

“There are laws for everything except the harm families do.”

“D” is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#4) by Sue Grafton

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He called himself Alvin Limardo, and according to him, he had a simple job for Kinsey: locate some fifteen-year-old who’d done him a favor once and pass on a check for $25,000. But then the $400 check for his retainer bounced. And that’s when Kinsey discovered his name was actually John Daggett; ex-con, iInveterate liar, chronic drunk, and before Kinsey can find him and either get her retainer or (more her preference) give the check back and wash her hands of the whole business, dead. […]

In Dublin, Fair City

Faithful Place by Tana French

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This is the third novel in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. I read the first two, In the Woods and The Likeness, a while ago and then decided to take a break. I found both novels to be too long, with pacing problems that hampered my enjoyment of the story, as well as finding the plot of the second novel too unlikely to really buy into. French’s novels are not typical mystery novels, or detective novels, or police procedurals per se. To me, they feel more […]

Edgar Allen Poe: The MUU-SIC-CAL! (jazz hands)

Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention by Norm Konyu

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I laughed. I laughed some more. I laughed until tears almost ran down my leg.  Oh sorry, TMI. Yeah, Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention by Norm Konyu is an A-M-A-ZING! tale. All of Poe flashes before your eyes (or at least the highlights of his written career) in a funny, rhyming poem that outlines the wails and woes of our beloved author. Things are delightfully somber, lively, with bold images colorfully dancing across the pages to illustrate the Glory Be of […]

Frankenstein: But with cats. And funny

Frankenstein: A Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci, Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci and Federica De Cotis

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Frankenstein: A Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley, Lorenzo Coltellacci (Adapter), Michele Botton (Adapter), Federica De Cotis (Illustrator)   Due October 2026 read via an online reader copy. When the book started, it’s set in an arctic landscape. My brain said, “Isn’t this how Dracula opens? A ship? Ice?” My brain said, “Yes ship;  ice no.” And then, “But wasn’t there a scene in the film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Men that looked like this?” My brain said, “Yes, I think we are remembering […]

I can’t get over Platypusary is a real word

Penelope's Escape from the Platypusary by Arianna Irwin

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I had seen Penelope’s Escape from the Platypusary by Arianna Irwin in various places (emails, catalogs, an online reader copy). One day there was a “sign up for getting copies of these reader copies” so I did. And I was lucky enough to receive several of them, with this one being an email with an attachment to a full copy of the graphic novel (granted I was hoping for a physical copy). Yet, I almost decided not to read when I learned it was “based […]



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