Review: Sacrificial Lambs and Others

Sacrificial Lambs and Others by Sheri White
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: SACRIFICIAL LAMBS AND OTHERS by Sheri White

I believe this collection is my first introduction to Sheri White, and what a glorious encounter it is. This author, I can safely say, is quite possibly unique. In 6 decades of immersing in Horror, I can't recall another writer similar. Without a doubt, she is a master of The Twist: that special denouement which turns readers inside out, sinking the story's hooks (or its claws) into readers' memories. In this selection of 12 flash fiction stories and 14 Short Stories, together with an enlightening and intriguing introduction by Monica O'Rourke and a foreword from Ms. White, is comprised a mind-raising experience, one I am so happy to encounter.

Ms. White is also inspiring. After time away from writing, she recommenced full-tilt and submitted. submitted, submitted, often with wins or inclusion in anthologies. She is unstoppable!

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Review: Scouse Gothic: The Pool of Life... and Death

Scouse Gothic: The Pool of Life... and Death by Ian McKinney
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review: SCOUSE GOTHIC: THE POOL OF LIFE AND DEATH by Ian McKinney

When I read Vampire Fiction (rarely), I think in terms of the blessings of eternity {books! Time to read whatever I wish, all I wish! and health: no arthritis! No aches and pains and general debility}. I don't think in terms of the issues our protagonist Melville experiences. He, like the proverbial elephant, never forgets, not even after centuries. Also, Melville still has a heart: feelings, emotions, even compassion and empathy. Everywhere he travels or settles, memories arise. Geography, buildings, lives long ended, lost friendships, lost loves.

SCOUSE GOTHIC: THE POOL OF LIFE AND DEATH.... is Book 1 in Ian McKinney' s SCOUSE GOTHIC series, set in Liverpool, England.

BOUT OF BOOKS 22

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Challenge #1 #insixwords Voracious reader, enthusiastic reviewer, pet devotee

Challenge #2

Year of You

Books published in my birth year

CHARLOTTE' S WEB

THE INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

EAST OF EDEN

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

My most-remembered early childhood novel:
Andre Norton's LORD OF THUNDER.

We always had tons of mystery and science fiction paperbacks at home, but LORD OF THUNDER and Rosemary du Jardin's lovely novels were Library acquisitions, from our local Carnegie Library.

Challenge #3: Show Your Precious

Rather than just 1 book, here are 1 book and two authors who always give 1000%:

Garth Stein, A SUDDEN LIGHT

John Connolly's CHARLIE PARKER Mysteries

Tim Powers, always: surreal fabulist and magical realist, absolute genius--the Eric Bloom of authors. Especially for

LAST CALL

THREE DAYS TO NEVER

SALVAGE AND DEMOLITION

ALTERNATE ROUTES

Challenge #4:

Read Alikes

My former local library offered flyers with this theme:

"If you like "Author," try "author." Sometimes you just don't know, and are waiting on your author to publish a new boom. So tread--or find a new author.

Tim Powers? Try James Blaylock or John Crowley or John Connolly, some Dean Koontz

Challenge #5:

Space Scavenger Hunt You all like a scavenger hunt, right? This one is space themed. Use the guidelines below. Participate as much as you can. This is a challenge, so you don't have to get them all to win. If you have fun, you win. Mercury - Favourite short story/novella

Venus - Favourite book with female protagonist

Earth - Favourite book about nature/nature word in the title

Mars - Favourite book with a red cover

Jupiter - Favourite tome over 500 pages

Saturn - Favourite book with circle/ring on the cover/in the title

Uranus - Favourite book set in winter

Neptune - Favourite book set at sea, on a boat, or under water

Pluto - Favourite books featuring a dog/with a dog on the cover

Moon - Favourite book set anywhere other than Earth

Sun - Favourite book set in summer

Space - Favourite book set in space

I'll be adding to this challenge for days, as I cudgel my memory cells.

Mercury - Favourite short story/novella: "Overtime" by Charles Stride; "Dreams In the Witch House" by H. P. Lovecraft

Venus - Favourite book with female protagonist LEAH NASH series by Susan Hunter

Earth - Favourite book about nature/nature word in the title: RITUAL by Adam Nevill

Mars - Favourite book with a red cover

Jupiter - Favourite tome over 500 pages

Saturn - Favourite book with circle/ring on the cover/in the title

Uranus - Favourite book set in winter: COLDBROOK, Tim Lebbon

Neptune - Favourite book set at sea, on a boat, or under water: ¥INTO THE DARKEST DEEPS by Mira Grant

Pluto - Favourite books featuring a dog/with a dog on the cover: THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein

Moon - Favourite book set anywhere other than Earth: GREAT NORTH ROAD by Peter F. Hamilton

Sun - Favourite book set in summer

Space - Favourite book set in space: THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES, Arthur C. Clarke; THE ABYSS BEYOND DREAMS, Peter F. Hamilton

Challenge #6:

My Favorite Bout of Books Moment(s)

I always feel pleased when an author I've reviewed takes time to thank me and comment.

I've been reading and reviewing the first 3 books in Susan Hunter' s Leah Nash Mysteries-two I reviewed for blog tours- and each time Ms. Hunter has been generous with kind comments dovetailed to my specific reviews; a very kind person.

Secondly, yesterday's challenge is really helpful: June 1-14 is the SCI FI READATHON at Seasons of Reading

SCI FI READATHON and the entire month of June is my personal "Space Out With Sci Fi" Month SPACE OUT WITH SCI FI Goodreads Shelf, so yesterday's challenge about Space is igniting my ideas.

Challenge #6:

Goals

I didn't really set goals, except I planned to listen to a lot of audio weird fiction. I only listened to two audio stories.

I did read 8 novels and 2 children's books.

4 cozy mystery, 1 science fiction, 1 fantasy (and I loved it!!), 1 steampunk contemporary urban fantasy, 1 literary/women's fiction.

I enjoyed what I read, I'm thrilled to have read and loved a fantasy (CRIMSON), and all 8 novels were for review (6 "New," 2 delayed: the 2 Cozies by J. R. Ripley).

I yesterday discovered the Memorial Day Readathon, May 25-28, at Goodreads Group 75 Books, and for that I plan to concentrate on Cozies.

Thanks, Bout of Books!

Books Read: 1) STARTOUCHER by C. J. Idle. May 14.

2) DANGEROUS PLACES by Susan Hunter (Leah Nash Mysteries Book 3)

3) ASTROMOUSE by Steve Smallman - children's

4) RATTLES' GREAT ESCAPE by Arlene White - children's

5) GRANDGHOST by Nancy Springer

6) THE EXPERIMENT OF PROFESSOR POLGAS

7) MURDER MOST FOUL by V. S. Vale

8) FOWL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER by J. R. Ripley 9) CRIMSON by Arthur Slade

10) BEIGNETS AND BROOMSTICKS by J. R. Ripley

Audio Books: "In Amundsen's Tent" by John Michael Leahy

"The Shining Pyramid" by Arthur Machen

Review: Peculiar County

Peculiar County by Stuart R. West
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: PECULIAR COUNTY by Stuart R. West

I've never lived in Kansas, don't think I've ever been there. But then, I don't think too many people have encountered Stuart West' s Kansas either. As Stephen King mutated Maine, so Mr. West has transformed Kansas into a "meta-Kansas," a condition of "Otherness" above and beyond the Kansas normally experienced by residents and tourists.

Perhaps the quintessence of "meta-Kansas" exists in Peculiar County, where nothing operates according to the laws of physics (except possibly gravity) and where being dead certainly doesn't mean you don't have a part to play, something to say, and an axe to grind. Just ask Dibby, age 15. She lives a quiet country life as the town's undertaker' s daughter. Well, it was a quiet life--till young Los Angeles (James) moves to town (and hates it) and the ghost of a tormented, tortured, young boy cries out to Dibby...for relief, for understanding, for revelation, for vengeance? He's not resting in peace and neither is she.

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Review: A Graveyard Visible

A Graveyard Visible by Steve Conoboy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review: A GRAVEYARD VISIBLE by Steve Conoboy

A GRAVEYARD VISIBLE is a literate horror story, a surreal portrait of coming of age, pariah status, and intellect. It is also the story of a tiny depressing town, and of a strange--even bizarre--cemetery, where the impossible occurs. Young Caleb lives in a house overlooking that graveyard, with a psychologically and verbally abusive father, grieving his late mother. Mischa is the highly intelligent but much maligned granddaughter of the cemetery keeper. And the cemetery itself? Growing, literally. New funerals almost every night. New burials under antique headstones. A few mourners. And the cemetery just keeps expanding, measurably... A supernatural suspense in a setting that should be impossible..

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Review: Cold Vengeance

Cold Vengeance by Brannon Hollingsworth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: COLD VENGEANCE by Brannon Hollingsworth (Tenet's Tales Book 1)

Again, first-person narrative, this time by Tenet himself, the paranormal entity whom we encounter in THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, where he appeared peripherally but essentially. In 1875 Montana, Tenet and a rancher friend intend to destroy a dangerous threat to wildlife, livestock, and settlers, in the snow-packed Montana mountains. A danger as old as the land, inextricably bound to the land, confronts and drastically endangers Tenet and his old friend.

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Review: The Truth Is Out There

The Truth Is Out There by Brannon Hollingsworth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

REVIEW: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE by Brannon Hollingsworth (Tenet' s Tales Book 0)

I quite enjoyed this tale, both for its rampant supernatural elements, and for its truly "feckless hero" protagonist! First-person narrative delivered by an unreliable narrator tightly involved in the action works excellently in a paranormal plot. Matt (no, not Jimmy) Olsen is the quintessential roving reporter for The Orbis Observer. Matt boldly ventures where sensible persons fear to tread, because Matt is a True Believer. He knows The Truth Is Out There {I readily identified with him}, and he's unafraid to track Truth and report it, even when warned away by a paranormal entity. Off into the steamy Malaysian jungles treks fearless Matt, because The Truth Is Out There...

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Review: The Twelve

The Twelve by D.E. McCluskey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: THE TWELVE by D. E. McCluskey

An aspect of fiction I insist on is the "Reader's Hook," something in the first page (or even the first paragraph) that yanks the reader straight inside the story, impelling us to suspend disbelief and live through the characters--no matter what. In THE TWELVE, the Reader's Hook is explosive!! Blew me away! And--propelled me! Not once was I disappointed. Saddened--yes. Perturbed--yes. Gore-splattered--frequently! Yet the story rocked on, carrying me like the white water rapids of a raging out-of-control river, and I adored every minute of the experience.

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Review: Jacob's Descent

Jacob's Descent by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: JACOB'S DESCENT by Sandra Brannan
(A Liv Bergen Mystery Book 6)

I read Books 1-6 in 9 days; I truly adore this series, and I hope it continues on and on (lots more on which to expand). Liv is recuperating with her family in South Dakota following the tragic losses of Book 5. But where Liv is, often as not will be not peace but controversy, not safety but danger. As in WIDOWS MIGHT, history plays an essential, if ugly role. Liv will face danger, deception, and modern-day feuding families. Like Book 5 and earlier, this was a one-day read, as I just couldn't stop.

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Review: Solomon's Whisper

Solomon's Whisper by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: SOLOMON'S WHISPER by Sandra Brannan
(A Liv Bergen Mystery Book 5)

One of author Sandra Brannan's many talents is encompassing topical subjects. In the first in this series, she examined culture and Art, delineating the fine narrow line separating genius and insanity. Next she examined the outlaw biker counter-culture, then eco-terrorism and history, followed by child abuse. In SOLOMON'S WHISPER, the topic is Vigilantism, and how it grows out of a dissatisfaction with America's criminal justice system. There is also a continuation of the child abuse thread found in NOAH'S RAINY DAY, and much examination of the protagonist and her personal life. Prepare to have your emotions turned inside out. Ms. Brannan really managed to fool me, so that the denouement I truly did not expect.


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Review: Chilly da Vinci

Chilly da Vinci by Jarrett Rutland
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: CHILLY DA VINCI by Jarrett Rutland

I love to find children's books that not only provide a neat story, but also offers more: inspiration, encouragement, a moral lesson. CHILLY DA VINCI is a delightful tale of an inventor penguin. Chilly is creative and "thinks outside the box." Like Thomas Edison, his inventions aren't always perfect on the first attempt, but that never fazes him. He just keeps on.

Inspiring, encouraging, and delightful, CHILLY DA VINCI is a good read, both for reading children and reading to younger kids.

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Review: Noah's Rainy Day

Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

REVIEW: NOAH'S RAINY DAY by Sandra Brannan
(A Liv Bergen Mystery Book 4)

Liv Bergen is an extraordinary protagonist, of whom I've become extremely fond, extremely fast. Born into a mines-owning large family (Liv Is one of 7 sisters and has 2 brothers), she has always been an inveterate puzzle solver, and just can't let a mystery go. She joins the FBI almost accidentally (or is it fate?) and becomes an applauded Special Agent. This installment, like the following two novels, is a tearjerker, also stomach churning because of the plot (although the author doesn't over detail the situation). Liv' s nephew Noah, who has cerebral palsy, but a brilliant intellect and great powers of observation, is the star.

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Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon_April 28, 2018

This is held semiannually, in April and October. Yesterday was my first go. I started 2 hours, 50 minutes late.

I read for 12 hours, 45 minutes (of 24).

I read (in entirety): SOLOMON'S WHISPER, Book 5 in the Liv Bergen Mystery Series By Sandra Brannan;

CHILLY DA VINCI, a children's picture and text story by Jarrett Rutland.

Finally I read 13% of THE TWELVE by D. E. McCluskey, a terrifically engrossing horror novel.

Review: Widow's Might

Widow's Might by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: WIDOWS MIGHT by Sandra Brennan (A Liv Bergen Mystery #3)

This third installment of the Liv Bergen Mystery Series follows directly and immediately from LOTS RETURN TO SODOM (Book 2), while Liv is preparing to leave Rapid City, South Dakota, to return to home at Fort Collins, Colorado, and employment as Division Manager of the family quarry. But seemingly fate (or Liv's unconscious plans) has other ideas. Tapped by FBI Special Agent Streeter Pierce to become the new handler for Liv' s late friend's FBI trailing (manhunting) dog, Liv has also been tentatively asked to consider applying to the FBI.

While Pierce is assigned temporarily to the Rapid City FBI Office, he is tasked to consider a long series of cold cases attributed to a perpetrator tentatively labeled "Crooked Man." Turns out, the trail isn't quite cold, because the killer isn't finished, and this one directly endangers Liv' s family, and Liv. The plot is immensely convoluted, and clearly demonstrates the famous dictum of historian George Santayana:
"Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it."


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Review: Lot's Return to Sodom

Lot's Return to Sodom by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: LOT'S RETURN TO SODOM by Sandra Brannan
(A Liv Bergen Mystery)

I fell in love with this series from the very beginning of the first mystery, IN THE BELLY OF JONAH. I loved this one also, though due to the subject matter it was personally uncomfortable. Ms. Brennan delves deeply into the psyches of her characters (which I find personally gratifying) and she continues to set up complex patterns and plots.

Protagonist Liv Bergen returns to her home town of Rapid City, South Dakota, for a brief convalescence with family as she continues her recovery from the near-fatality of IN THE BELLY OF JONAH. It so happens that her visit coincides with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and multiple murders. Liv' s puzzle-loving mind can't resist interfering, especially since one elderly deceased was a long-term family friend, and the murdered young lady was shortly to become Liv's brother's beloved fiance.

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Review: In the Belly of Jonah

In the Belly of Jonah by Sandra Brannan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: IN THE BELLY OF JONAH by Sandra Brannan
(A Liv Bergen Mystery, #1)

An extraordinary commencement to what promises to be an extraordinary series, IN THE BELLY OF JONAH is, without exaggeration, unforgettable. Those opening scenes!... Not just those, the entire novel. The empowered female series protagonist, the FBI Special Agents, the victims, the secondary characters--and the Villain. Oh my. Ted Bundy, step aside. This is a novel in which a number of characters are brilliant intellects: Liv Bergen, the protagonist; a few of the FBI agents, and the Villain. So, as with the real-life killers Leopold and Loeb of 1920's Chicago, there's a constant "battle of the minds" which raises the story level (and the stakes). Then, too, a strong cultural framework contains the story's tapestry (Art), balanced by the bizarre psychology and methods of the Villain.

Thankfully I own the first six books in the series and am making this a marathon read.

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Review: LAND OF BONES

LAND OF BONES by Glenn Rolfe
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: LAND OF BONES by Glenn Rolfe

By turns heart-touching, heart-tearing, oh! My!, and almost always Scary!, Glenn Rolfe's new collection showcases this author's variety. I'd say there's something here to terrify almost everyone, even the most jaded reader of horror, dystopia, or apocalyptic scenarios. There's also a thoughtful and heartening introduction from author Erin Sweet all-Mehairi, the talented editor of this collection.

I thought I could select one or two stories to call "my favourites" in this set. Didn't work that efficiently. Found I had several. For the "Oh!My!" factor, there's "Wish." (If I was a little more puritanical, and thought Jonathan Edwards was peering over my shoulder, I'd sling this story into the "Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out" folder. Of course, these stories ARE set in New England....)

Then there's the delightfully painful "Not Kansas Anymore," which is set in Maine, there are no flying monkeys but something worse--and you really, really, do not want to see the "man" behind the curtain.

"Fire"--tore me up. I'm sure there will be nightmares. Inescapable and implacable, maximally.

"Simon"--hello, Mr. Lovecraft, and plenty of "Oh! My! Oh! No!" Factor. Very scary. What hurt worst? The little girl voices it. Read and see.

Finally, the story that cast me back to an earlier work by this gifted man, "The Ghosts of Spears Corners." If you've read Glenn's impactful CHASING GHOSTS (a book whose memory STILL wakes me up at night gibbering), race at the speed of light to read "Ghosts of Spears Corners" first {read it in sunlight}.




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Review: The Shimmer

The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: THE SHIMMER by Carsten Stroud

To date, I have never met a Carsten Stroud novel I haven't adored. Each one steals my breath and provides the most important criterion in reading: total engrossing absorption. In THE SHIMMER, he takes on time travel, metaphysics, serial killing, and body thievery, and renders it all completely believable.

An extraordinary Florida Highway Patrol sergeant tracks a suspicious SUV, opening a case that will literally result in life and death and time travel. You won't know what's next, but you won't be able to stop. Prepare for a couple of sleepless nights!

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SCARBOROUGH FAIR Series by Margarita Morris_Tour and Reviews

Historical Mystery/Thriller

Date Published: 20 March 2016

Publisher:  Landmark Media

Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

1899: Alice isn’t mad. So why has she been put away in a Victorian lunatic asylum without any hope of escape?

2016: Rose is excited when Dan asks her to go to the fair with him. But an encounter with some dangerous men leads them to an abandoned lunatic asylum with dark secrets of its own.

Visiting Scarborough over a century apart, Alice and Rose’s stories are nevertheless connected in mysterious ways.

Scarborough Fair is the first in a thrilling historical trilogy. Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Historical Mystery/Thriller

Date Published:  16 December 2016

Publisher: Landmark Media

Scarborough Ball

A party should be fun. Not a matter of life and death.

1923: A New Year's Eve Ball at Scarborough's Grand Hotel promises fun and excitement. But for Lilian it soon turns into a matter of life and death.

2016: At the start of term, Rose is keen to make new friends. Instead she makes an enemy. Someone is out for revenge. And Rose is the target.

Scarborough Ball is the second in the Scarborough Fair series, a thrilling historical trilogy.

Historical Mystery/Thriller

Date Published:  13 January 2018

Publisher:  Landmark Media

Scarborough Rock

The thrilling conclusion to the Scarborough Fair series.

1957: In post-war Britain, Rock ‘n Roll is sweeping the nation, but some forms of love are against the law and pre-marital sex is a taboo subject. Sandra and David find themselves in entirely different, yet comparable, circumstances. Is love ever enough?

2017: All Rose has to do is give evidence in court and her nemesis will be put behind bars for a very long time. But Max isn’t going to let a group of teenagers stand between him and freedom. He will fight till the end. No matter who gets hurt.

The events of the past come back to haunt the present. Nothing is without consequences.

Scarborough Rock is the final book in the Scarborough Fair series, a thrilling historical trilogy.

About the Author

Margarita Morris was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. She studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford and worked in computing for eleven years. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two sons.

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The Haunted Reading Room's Reviews Scarborough Fair by Margarita Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: SCARBOROUGH FAIR

SCARBOROUGH FAIR is an endearing time travel contemporary and Victorian romance with a sociological impact, first in a trilogy. In 1899, a London lady vacations in Scarborough, Yorkshire, a beach resort, hoping to achieve clarity on the subject of her betrothal. What she discovers is danger, not clarity, subjected to a nightmarish involuntary commitment, for her betrothed is a megalomaniac gold digger. Her maid, Mary, however, achieves a happy life, settling in Scarborough.

In the present time, sixteen-year-old Rose of London spends the summer in Scarborough with her grandmother, Mary's granddaughter. She encounters friendship, enduring romance, and danger from a vicious local criminal ring.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR is a YA novel, but is certainly an enjoyable read for adults as well.

Scarborough Ball by Margarita Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: SCARBOROUGH BALL

This trilogy would be well worth reading if only for the story of Rose, Dan, and Scarborough. The time travel aspects and the historical components make the novels that much more scrumptious. The author draws her characters and settings so vivid, clearly delineating the historical figures and the contemporary characters, and showing us Scarborough as it was and is. This one has its historical period December 1923 into 1924, the silent film and Jazz Age era, post-World War I.

Scarborough Rock by Margarita Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: SCARBOROUGH ROCK by Margarita Morris

SCARBOROUGH ROCK {think : "Rock Around the Clock" era} is third in this enterprising and truly entertaining series {think: rereadable}. In the present day (2017), Rose and Dan are hoping to finally achieve at least some level of closure as hopefully sociopathic criminal "mastermind" Max faces trial. Of course, the ideal solution would be to turn back time, back to before Dan's dad hooked up with criminals, before Rose' s grandmother passed on, before Rose nearly died.

Turning back time Is also a thread in the 1957 component, a horrible era in which to "be different," a bad time to be alone and without wise guidance or help, a time when some of the characters of that era suffer unbearable grief.

I am so thrilled with this series. YA it may be, nevertheless: I love it.

Review: The Dead Game

The Dead Game by Susanne Leist
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review: THE DEAD GAME

Oasis, Florida, is in a jewel of a setting, overlooking the Atlantic in North Florida. Lovely older homes (read wealthy owners) and tasteful modern construction, plus a beach, seem to blend in a tapestry of delight. Not so: Oasis is a weird community: very weird. In fact, paranormal. And not lovely sweet fairies and angels, either. This is Bad Weird. Evil. Disappearances. Murders. Corpses. Not to mention, don't mix with the Old Guard. Never, never, never. Or else.

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Review: FREAKY FRANKY

FREAKY FRANKY by William Blackwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review: FREAKY FRANKY

A novel that manages to be simultaneously scary, metaphysical, and heartwarming, FREAKY FRANKY focuses on the religion of Santa Muerte, the Mexican Saint of Death. The story is set in Mexico, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the Dominican Republic. Emphasis on family and interpersonal relationships balances with an interweaving of the nature of Saint Death and aspects of her worship. There's also a heaping helping of poetic justice.

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