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Midnight Library, The

Second Chances And Supernatural Libraries Author: Matt Haig Nora Seed is ready to die. There is nothing left but to take too many pills, lie down in her lonely apartment, die, and be forgotten. So, when Nora awakens from her death sleep to find herself alone in a giant library, she is perplexed. In this unstable library with its rows after rows of green books, she has  a final chance to see the ramifications of every decision, the endless different lives that could have been, that unspool from small and large changes. If she likes one of these lives, she [...]

2023-02-11T13:06:02-07:00February 11th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Black Mouth

Confronting the Childhood Boogeyman Author: Ronald Malfi Jamie Warren’s life is filled with wreckage: the effects of his long alcoholism, his estrangement from family, and a hometown that harbors a special hate for him. It is altogether too much, and just as he is starting to recover, a tragedy calls him back home. Back to his trusting, disabled brother, now alone, who needs him. Back to his childhood friends. Back to the consequences of what they did one summer. Black Mouth is compared to Stephen King’s classic It, and there are some surface similarities, from the weirdness of the supernatural menace [...]

2023-02-07T20:14:27-07:00February 7th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Daisy Darker

One By One They Die Author: Alice Feeney In an isolated ocean mansion cut off from land by high tide, 80 clocks are chiming on the wall and one old woman lies murdered beneath a cryptic poem about her dysfunctional family. Her family has gathered around her on this Halloween night, her 80th birthday. They all hoped to inherit. They all had reason, opportunity, and motive. As the clocks chime each hour, another family member goes missing, another family member dies. Someone is culling the heirs; someone is willing to do anything for Nana’s money. Slowly, lines are crossed out on [...]

2023-02-06T20:54:41-07:00February 6th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |
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