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#WinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks 845 pts

This has been on TBR for a long time, and I DNFed a few years back, but picked it up again bc it fits a prompt I need for a challenge. This time I did it on audiobook and it did work better, but I didn't really connect with any of the characters. I did like the monster spin on the Lizzie Borden legend though.

Watching the nibling and reading Lizzie Borden meets the Cthulhu mythos.

(I can‘t believe that my old Fisher Price Barn still makes the mooing sound!)

Lizzie Borden + HP Lovecraft/Cthulu + great narrators = PICK.

Can't wait to get started on the second book in the series!

I can only borrow 3 ebooks/audiobooks per month from my library (it used to be 10.) I'm curious to know what the limit is for other #hoopla using #littens.

Well I'm glad the library didn't lie about having this audiobook title!

1/5⭐ I love the idea of a mashup of Lizzie Borden and Lovecraft, and the author clearly tried to evoke the Lovecraft epistolary "horror on the edges" style. But 2.5 hours into the audiobook I was still waiting for something to hook me. The 1st person diary/notes format was full of boring exposition and failed to develop any kind of mysterious horror tension.

Some good moments of suspense in this horror novel featuring Lizzie Borden and her sister.

Interesting. I'm not a big horror zombie person but this wasn't horrible. I liked the romance but the other relationships just didn't interest me all that much. I get so excited when there's an atheist character and an LGBTQ romance so this book gets extra stars for that! the reasoning for the Zombie ppl just seemed a little all over the place. I think I'll keep an eye out for the sequel on BookOutlet.

Don't know a thing about this one but the cover has intrigued me for a while and then I found the eAudiobook through the library!

A creepy, fun Lovecraftian retelling of the Lizzie Borden story. Cherie Priest never fails to satisfy with her subtle horror stories and this one is no exception!

While Harley Quinn cleans herself I'm going to pick Maplecroft up again and try and stick with it. I like it I just seem to pick other things up instead of finishing this one. Been reading it very sparingly since September.

This was an excellent book. It was a good monster story laced with a little bit of mystery--what is it? Where did it come from? How can will they stop it? Very very good.

Third time's the charm right? After two DNFs in a row, hoping this one breaks that trend. I read Cherie Priest's Cheshire Red series and loved it.

This was an intense and excellently written book - it is not just a Lizzie Borden re-imagining, but a mix of Victorian small town/domestic life, epistolary storytelling - brilliantly showing various character viewpoints of the action in addition to revealing their personalities and interior monologues - and Lovecraftian horror. Woowee!
I am not sure I would have trusted any other writer to take me here - Cherie Priest is Super A+++++

I need a good dose of tough lady-ness and I feel like it's a safe bet that one of my favorite authors Cherie Priest and Lizzie Borden battling some scary Evil (with a capital E) will do the trick!
(I think the ax and blood splatter make up for the faceless-gal-in-a-period-piece-dress cover 😉)
#sirensreadingchallenge

This coffee is surprisingly not bad. Tastes like a cross between Map-o-Spread and Dare Maple cookies dunked in coffee. I can live with that.

Loved this creepy, imaginative homage to Lovecraft that had strikingly emotional subplot about sisters, dependency, and envy. Escapist and engrossing.

continuing my Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett theme, here are just a selection of my books with #onewordtitles. not too bad considering 3/4 of my books remain unpacked.

#photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading

#wordlesswednesday

Needed (desperately) an engrossing book, so grabbed this. Lizzie Borden vs Lovecraftian evil. Loving it so far!

This pace of this book is so slow, and yet I dare not skim. Lizzie's passages especially are filled with sad but beautiful imagery. (p367)

"I am strong, but I am not resilient. When my heart is manhandled it does not bounce; it shatters." -p307
#HistoricalFiction #Horror

"But women her age, barely out of their teens and with the whole world before them, they haven't yet had time to lose the things they love. Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy, and either one is fine so long as the story is good... They don't yet know how the years fade and stretch the highs and the lows, wearing them thin, making them vulnerable. They haven't yet known much of death." -p6

Maybe I'll finish this up tonight...then again the snores are awful distracting.

Only a few chapters in and really enjoying this.

"We cook ourselves in fear. Fear is the routine that has come to feel ordinary." #amreading

Bookshelf Review #1: Maplecroft is Lovecraft + Lizzie Borden and I think it's a work of genius. Lush language and a building sense of dread and heck yes she uses that ax! I have an ARC and it's a prized possession. Y'all can get finished copies now!

The well-known story of the Borden murders meets the supernatural. Entertaining with a creative twist adding paranormal aspects to an infamous case. Enjoyable reading for those who like their Victorian Era tales with a slight twist.

This book made me even more obsessed over Lizzy Borden. Very Lovecraftian! I can't wait to read the second installment. I love that no one really knows what happened in that house.