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The Three S-s: spooky, sad, and a little bit sexy

The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

August 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

Honestly, what else could you need? If you are our Heroine Leigh Wells, you need quite a bit. You’ve been called back to your ancestral island home, far flung from the wild shores of Scotland. World War Two did not hit your home directly, but it stole many young men and sent very few back home. The few that returned are not who they once were. The island is not what it once was. The Sluagh (sloo-ah) still return every October, but every year they […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bird, bird square, cbr14bingo, Emma Seckel, folklore, Gaelic legend, galley, galley club, grief, loss, mystery, new release, post-war, pub day, scotland, sluagh, superstition, tin house, tin house galley club, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bird, bird square, cbr14bingo, Emma Seckel, folklore, Gaelic legend, galley, galley club, grief, loss, mystery, new release, post-war, pub day, scotland, sluagh, superstition, tin house, tin house galley club, WWII ·
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hide all you want, but nothing stays buried

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

May 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Jeanie and Julius have spent their entire lives together. Over half a century of life together has passed, and they have never spent an entire night separate from each other. Jeanie tends the garden with their mother, Dot, and Julius works odd jobs in the village. Jeanie, Julius, and Dot depend fiercely on one another. They accept nothing from the outside world- at least, Jeanie and Julius spent the last 51 years believing that they were accepting nothing and indebted to no one but each […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy ·
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