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My little piggy needed something new.

Pearl by Josh Malerman

February 15, 2022 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

“Sing for me, Brother Jeff. Sing for Pearl.” There is something unsettling about Walter Kopple’s farm out on Murdock Road. Something that makes you drive a little faster when going past, that makes you feel a bit like you walked through cobwebs. Jeff and Aaron don’t like visiting their grandfather’s farm because of the way it feels. They know, as does everyone, something is wrong at the farm. Something is wrong with the pigs and the large male who lords over them, Pearl. Pearl with […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: horror, josh malerman, madness, Pearl, telepathy

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Horror · Tags: horror, josh malerman, madness, Pearl, telepathy ·
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad…House

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan

November 11, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A knock at the door. A series of frantic knocks at the door. Yes, It Will Just Be Us  nearly starts with “it was a dark and stormy night”. Our narrator, Sam, is a down-and-out adjunct professor of archeology barely hanging onto her sanity. After a series of upsetting events, we find her moving back to her crumbling, ancestral mansion in on the edge of a foreboding Virginia swamp. The mansion is, for all intents and purposes, haunted. It’s haunted by the living specter of her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia ·
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Another Alice story…

Insanity (Mad in Wonderland) by Cameron Jace

January 21, 2017 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

I’m not really sure where to begin with this book. It’s super weird, but kinda fun at the same time. I’m nearly positive I liked it! It was a quick read too.  There’s a while bunch of other books in the series, so I’m definitely continuing on with Alice’s tales. So I’ll just start where the book starts. There’s a murder of a girl at Oxford University, and it looks like the Cheshire Cat did it. Like this guy: From Alice in Wonderland. Except in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alice, Cameron Jace, madness, Wonderland

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alice, Cameron Jace, madness, Wonderland ·
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“Amory Lorch, Cersei Lannister, Chiswyck, Dunsen, Gregor Clegane, Ilyn Payne, Joffrey Baratheon, Meryn Trant, Forel Polliver, Raff the Sweetling, The Hound, The Tickler, Weese”…

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

December 1, 2016 by borisanne 6 Comments

They broke the mold after Dumas wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo.” There will never be a revenge plot as ambitious, as smooth, as Rube Goldbergian, as violent, as tense, or as passionate as this. This is the Ur Revenge Plot. I devoured this book. Inhaled it. And it’s partly because my brain melted a bit after the election, and then I was doggedly rebuilding my spirits with Solnit’s “Hope in the Dark” (TBR) (GET OFF MY BACK), and then it was Thanksgiving, and I […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: alexandre dumas, angel, bankruptcy, book club, buried treasure, CBR8, dagger, disguise, Dumas, fake death, fashion, Fiction, god, madness, mistaken identity, murder, poison, Prison, revenge, Satan, sea, suicide, wealth

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:44 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: alexandre dumas, angel, bankruptcy, book club, buried treasure, CBR8, dagger, disguise, Dumas, fake death, fashion, Fiction, god, madness, mistaken identity, murder, poison, Prison, revenge, Satan, sea, suicide, wealth ·
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This is Madness!

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

September 17, 2014 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Antoinette Cosway, the main character of this novel, is the crazy woman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Rhys imagines the life of Rochester’s first wife and the events that drove her to madness, demonstrating her knowledge and understanding of Jamaican/West Indies history and culture as well as the powerful socio-economic forces that influenced post-Emancipation development there. As Francis Wyndham writes in the introduction, …Rhys knew about the mad Creole heiresses in the early nineteenth century, whose dowries were only an additional burden […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, charlotte bront, ElCicco, emancipation, Fiction, Jamaica, jane eyre, Jean Rhys, madness, Obeah, ReadWomen2014, Slavery, West Indies, Wide Sargasso Sea

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, charlotte bront, ElCicco, emancipation, Fiction, Jamaica, jane eyre, Jean Rhys, madness, Obeah, ReadWomen2014, Slavery, West Indies, Wide Sargasso Sea ·
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