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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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a manor on the edge of ruin, a mute little girl, a butler with a dangerous past, and a potentially magical drunken dandy…

The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell

June 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

What looks like a recipe for potential nonsense is actually a truly surprising and unique thriller! Paraic O’Donnell follows up the Victorian spiritualism of The House on Vesper Sands with another historical mystery, but where I was expecting (and hoping for, honestly) a continuation of the former, The Maker of Swans jumps head-first into the 20th Century and dares the reader to catch up. A butler tries his damndest to keep his employer safe, sane, and sober- but the draws of the Jazz Age have the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 2022 release, 20th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, galley, historical thriller, jane eyre, jazz age, magic, melodrama, new, Paraic O'Donnell, paranormal, the house on vesper sands, tin house, tin house galley club

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 2022 release, 20th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, galley, historical thriller, jane eyre, jazz age, magic, melodrama, new, Paraic O'Donnell, paranormal, the house on vesper sands, tin house, tin house galley club ·
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There is beauty to be found in the melting snow and McDonalds wrappers

Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek

February 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Mitya is not good at math, as you can see. But he’s good at imagination. Mitya is utterly convinced that no one has ever looked at two halves long enough, or attentively enough. Mitya has some stories for you. Much like Mitya himself, this novel contains multitudes. Katya Kazbek, who often works as a translator, holds the door open for the curious reader with snippets of fairy tales. Sometimes these tales are her takes on mythology, and sometimes they are the mythology of being a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa ·
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monologuing at the mouth of madness

The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell

January 11, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A strong opening pulls us directly into the spooky fold; a seamstress with a secret hurls herself from a very important man’s very high attic window. The House on Vesper Sands has all of the hallmarks of a Victorian throw-back; mazes of manners, decrepit mansions, and gin-soaked police populate a scuzzy world of destitute working girls, complicated family histories, and genteel young men all-aflutter. The Spiritualist movement is in full-swing and a cloaked and creepy group of “Spiriters” may be responsible for a rash of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, crime, detective, galley, gothic, historical fiction, murder, Paraic O'Donnell, paranormal, tin house, tin house galley club, victorian england

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: ARC, crime, detective, galley, gothic, historical fiction, murder, Paraic O'Donnell, paranormal, tin house, tin house galley club, victorian england ·
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