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My first Grady Hendrix book, won’t be my last!

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

May 26, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 13/30 I was discombobulated for most of listening to this book. But I was interested the whole way through, and nothing about it felt lazy or half-done, like a certain other author’s work did for me. I should probably state up front that I am not at all a fan of slasher movies. In fact, I quite dislike them in general because I find them incredibly stressful and not cathartic in any way (although I have seen […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: Adrienne King, audiobooks, grady hendrix, horror, narfna, slashers, Suspense, the final girl support group, thrillers

narfna's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Suspense · Tags: Adrienne King, audiobooks, grady hendrix, horror, narfna, slashers, Suspense, the final girl support group, thrillers ·
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Ladies loving ladies and sucking blood in 1872.

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

May 26, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 11/30 This sure was something, I tell you what. Before I get to the actual review, I do want to say that I am specifically referring to the version edited by Carmen Maria Machado, with an introduction and footnotes by her. Both things fundamentally changed the experience of reading this. I am still boggled in the mind that this is a book about lesbian vampires and their young female victims being seduced, and it was written in […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: carmen maria machado, carmilla, horror, illustrated, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, LGBTQIA, narfna, vampires

narfna's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Horror · Tags: carmen maria machado, carmilla, horror, illustrated, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, LGBTQIA, narfna, vampires ·
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Night of the Living Hello Kitty Princess Demon-Deity

Escape From Yokai Land by Charles Stross

May 21, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had Charles Stross’ Laundry Files series in my TBR for a while; got the first one on Kindle sale a while back; it was pretty good. Grabbed 3 more from the library, although not quite in sequence. It turns out that you can read this series out of order and it will still mostly make sense. There may be references to someone dies or got married or is in another job or a certain probably evil who knows what is back, but how that […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, charles stross, Escape from Yokai Land, folklore, horror, Laundry Files, supernatural

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, charles stross, Escape from Yokai Land, folklore, horror, Laundry Files, supernatural ·
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…perhaps, vehicle for every kind of fear, she contained enough for all.

The Hauting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

May 19, 2022 by Leedock Leave a Comment

Here is where I admit to relegating Shirley Jackson to a middle school English reading requirement.  I have hazy memories of reading The Lottery and thinking it was super creepy but not much more than that. I know, I know. Just wanted to start with a little honesty here. The only reason that I FINALLY grabbed a Jackson book from the library was that I fell completely in love with The Haunting of Hill House adaptation on Netflix. Not to make this a tv review, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: cbr14, Fiction, horror, Shirley Jackson

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr14, Fiction, horror, Shirley Jackson ·
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Like a fantastical, queer Sherlock Holmes.

The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K. J. Charles

May 18, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 9/30 In my defense, K.J. Charles has a long backlist, but I wish I would have read this particular one sooner. I feel like I say that with her all the time, but with how much I love Sherlock Holmes and mysteries and spooky shit, this one definitely should have been at the top of my TBR. I’m making my way through her entire backlist this year, because her next book isn’t coming until early 2023, so […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: horror, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, paranormal, sherlockian, supernatural, the secret casebook of simon feximal

narfna's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: horror, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, paranormal, sherlockian, supernatural, the secret casebook of simon feximal ·
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“But a novel always ends, the lies come to the surface, and the deaths are explained. Maybe one of the bad characters gets away with something—that’s fashionable right now—but you are still left with a sense that things are balanced, that dark things come to light, and that the bad person will, at least, most likely be miserable.”

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

May 15, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book lit my brain up like a Christmas tree. Nobody knows why certain books hit certain people like they do. That’s part of the magic of art, and of reading. But it worked for me in individual pieces, and it worked as a whole. During parts of it, I could practically hear my synapses yelling far off in the distance a gleeful “wheeeee”. So, here are all the individual components that got me: *The main character, Shea, reads mystery and crime fiction, and reads […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: ghosts, horror, mysteries, mystery, narfna, Simone St. James, supernatural, the book of cold cases

narfna's CBR14 Review No:68 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: ghosts, horror, mysteries, mystery, narfna, Simone St. James, supernatural, the book of cold cases ·
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  • narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
  • narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
  • drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
  • Emmalita on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…Oh yay! Another #BlameMalin victim. That was an expensive miscommunication. I'm glad your grandmother is ok.
  • Emmalita on I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for meI have to admit, I really liked this one. But Anita Kelly's whole vibe just works for me. I do have a couple of non...
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