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Ring Shout
Ring Shout | P Djeli Clark
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Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Dj�l� Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror D. W. Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation (…more)
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JenniferEgnor
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This is a fast paced read, with each page leaving you wanting more. The kkk are not humans, but horrible monsters hiding under the white hoods…and only those gifted with ‘the sight‘, can see them for what they really are. Meanwhile, the 1915 propaganda film ‘The Birth of a Nation‘ is used to spread more hatred, and time is running out to stop it. Hate creates the monsters in this book, but we all know it creates them in real life, too.

Suet624 Pure evil. 3d
TieDyeDude I was so blown away by this book! 3d
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TieDyeDude
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This is not a post to endorse a political candidate, but unfortunately, politics are omnipresent in the US at this time (and have been for an exhaustingly long time). Anywho, know that this is a fundraiser for Harris/Walz, but, despite the partisan nature, it was too good not to share. A virtual event with appearances from a plethora of literary horror luminaries (P. Djeli Clark has just been added, too!). RSVP for free at scareupthevote.com

ImperfectCJ Thanks for sharing this! I just signed up and invited a bunch of people, too! 2mo
Jess Thanks for the heads up. Signed up and looking forward to it! 2mo
CBee Thank you for sharing! 2mo
bthegood Signed up, thx for sharing! 2mo
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Clare-Dragonfly
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Exciting, delightful, creepy and gross. I‘m so glad I read this at the start of spooky season!

TieDyeDude So good! The ending had me in tears. 3mo
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Graciouswarriorprincess
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Book 113/100 of the year.

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
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These are the ones that come to mind.

1. Ring Shout (I think it qualifies)
2. The Tell-Tale Heart
3. A Christmas Carol

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

dabbe #'s 2 and 3: 🤩🤩🤩 #1: now on the TBR! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 9mo
TieDyeDude Ring Shout absolutely qualifies! Great choice 9mo
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TracyReadsBooks
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#12Booksof2023

I‘m going to finish the year by highlighting two books in December, both novellas. The tagged book is a story about hate & anger turning people into actual monsters & the women who fight them. Loved it! Untethered Sky is a fantastic fantasy demonstrating significant skill on the part of Lee in developing such a fascinating world & compelling set of characters in a compact volume. Would love to read more in this world.

@Andrew65

SamAnne Ring Shout is such a great read! I hear it‘s being turned into a TV series. Horror meets Zora Neale Hurston. 11mo
Andrew65 Thanks for playing long, a great way to review 2023. See you for #12Booksof2024 on Christmas Day. 11mo
TracyReadsBooks @Andrew65 Thanks for hosting! Such a fun way to review the year‘s reading. 11mo
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Rachiiebookdragon
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DNF - I just don‘t think this is the book for me, luckily I borrowed it from the library…

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In a richly imagined early-20th century America, hate & fear feed an infectious disease that turns people into monsters. Standing in the way of those monsters are Maryse Boudreaux & her fellow resistance fighters. When an even greater evil looms, Maryse must make a choice, one that could save or doom everyone. There is a lot of depth here, also thoughtfulness about the choices people make, about the promise & threat of gaining power. Excellent.

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TracyReadsBooks
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This one starts fast…

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TieDyeDude
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An audio prequel to Ring Shout?! Yes, please. This podcast sounds excellent in general. Has anyone heard of it?

kyraleseberg Thank you for sharing this, I'm going to go check it out right now!! 13mo
Aimeesue P. Djeli Clark is sooooo good! Ring Shout was excellent. (edited) 13mo
JenniferEgnor I would also recommend these podcasts: graveyard tales, and astonishing legends! 6d
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5feet.of.fury
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A quick read, horrifying, maybe a bit straightforward for the character/plot development, but worth the time it takes.
A fantasy take on the real dark history, the KKK, the Night Doctors mix with haints & horrors.

dabbe That picture! 😲😲😲 1y
5feet.of.fury @dabbe it‘s the cover from the Midworld Press special edition… isn‘t it creepy? 1y
KathyWheeler The cover of my copy does not look like that! How creepy! 1y
dabbe @5feet.of.fury Holy guacamole, Batman, it sure is! 🤣😲🤗 1y
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The_Book_Ninja
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We‘re in Lovecraft Country; Spell-books written in blood; Mountain top rituals & tentacled beasts. Also, undertones of Barker‘s Hellraiser films. Well crafted characters battle KKK monsters. All good fun and action packed. My gripe: We are led through a linear story like a survival-horror video game. It‘s also too reliant on dues ex machina, even for a fantasy novel. Definitely a solid YA novel with powerful imagery and a rich, evocative setting

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Stacked!! Consider my interest piqued!! 1y
The_Book_Ninja Look forward to your review if you get round to reading it🙏🏼 1y
AbstractMonica Nice review! 1y
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AbstractMonica
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A dark fantasy novella about Ku Kluxes roaming Georgia (and spreading further). Maryse is the “champion”. She‘s fighting against the Ku Kluxes with her magic sword given to her by her “Aunties”. I liked the body horror descriptions, and I thought all the demon/ monster concepts were brilliant. I loved the symbolism of it all, and the story was wrapped up nicely. I couldn‘t really understand Nana Jean‘s dialogue, so that was my biggest issue.

The_Book_Ninja Great review. You read quicker than me I‘m still half way through but enjoying it. 1y
AbstractMonica @The_Book_Ninja thanks, it was a pretty quick read! 1y
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AbstractMonica
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40 pages in. Interesting concept. So far I‘ve gathered there is a second wave of klansmen that they refer to as Ku Kluxes. This KKK are literal monsters made of bone that feed on black people. They are in their dormant form when they are disguised as regular people. There are 3 black women that hunt them. Can‘t wait to get more into it.

The_Book_Ninja I started this last night! Page 25 1y
AbstractMonica @The_Book_Ninja can‘t wait to hear what you think! 1y
The_Book_Ninja @AbstractMonica you too🙌🏼 1y
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Chittavrtti
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Or, Hunting Ku Kluxes In The End Times

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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A short but impactful story. What if the KKK were not just monstrous people but actual monsters? In Ring Shout they are and three women all with complicated pasts are charged with hunting them. The writing is so good I saw it as a movie in my mind. I was so into the idea I googled it and it looks like it is being turned into a TV show! I rarely think a book should be turned but this one is screaming for it! Totally engrossing read.

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Littlewolf1
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5⭐️ this was an amazing book. And if anybody is still looking for books to read for Black History Month… And you love fantasy, choose this one. Historical horror fantasy at its best, I loved every minute of it❣️ this is also my last read for the month of January, and it marks my completion of this months #roll100 with book #84.

SamAnne Oh this one is so great! I heard there is a TV show coming out. 2y
Littlewolf1 @SamAnne ohh.. I‘m going to have to watch that 2y
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
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#12BooksOf2022 @Andrew65

My favorite book of April was small but packed a big punch - Ring Shout! It was my first by Clark but won't be my last. He created an interesting situation and characters to root for.

I also read The Storyteller by Dave Grohl. He always seems like a great human being and this book keeps me believing that he is. He's a family man & friend first, a musician second.

Andrew65 Sometimes the smallest ones can pack the biggest punches! 2y
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suvata
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Not for the faint of heart.

#StoryGraph: fiction fantasy historical horror adventurous dark tense fast-paced
185 pages | first published 2020

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror.

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suvata
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My plans for the
Halloween Bookly Readathon
@BooklyApp #BooklyReadathon
Oct 23, 2022 8pm - Oct 30, 2022 8pm

kimmypete1 Oh I loved Into the Drowning Deep!! 2y
suvata @kimmypete1 It came highly recommended. 2y
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Coffeymuse
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This was an amazing novella that packed so much punch into 185 pages. Recommend this one, especially if you're looking to add just one more book to your Halloween horror reads.

This has been in production for a TV series since 2020 and fits that prompt in #Booked2022 @alisiakae @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

It was also my #Bookspin for Book Bingo @TheAromaOfBooks

This was also my first book of #DeweyOct!

Cinfhen Fantastic!!! 2y
KathyWheeler This could make a great series! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
SamAnne I am glad they are making a tv series!! Loved loved loved this one. Horror meets Zora Neale Hurston 2y
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ImperfectCJ
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The premise of this novel is one that could easily be written as a totally plot-based story with characters that have only enough depth as necessary to further the author's message, but P. Djèlí Clark gives readers so much more. The characters are three-dimensional and have relationships that feel real. The message is there, for sure, but it's inside an enjoyable, well-written story. I'll be picking up more from this author.

ImperfectCJ It's monsters, so not a theme read for #TeamSlaughter, but still, 4 hours for 46 points. #scarathlon #bookspinbingo 2y
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jen_hayes7
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My cuddle buddy is back at his emotional support work while I read my next #readharder2022 book. #huey #catsoflitsy

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Coffeymuse
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My #Doublespin/#Bookspin for October.

“Ring Shout“ is one of my Dewey's Readathons novellas I want to read on the 22nd. The library book option, well I've got about 20 books out at the moment so that won't be a problem ;)

@TheAromaOfBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Good luck!! 2y
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KCofKaysville
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Amazing little fantasy that blends legacy of slavery and KKK after WW1 with hate-devouring monsters. Would make a great graphic novel or a movie.

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KCofKaysville
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Some of it is quite spooky

SamAnne Loved this book!
2y
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KCofKaysville
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I am starting this one now.

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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego
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Wow, there was a lot packed into these 200 pages. Not even sure how exactly to categorize this, historical fiction, fantasy, horror? My only gripe is that I think it could have been longer. There was so much to take in, in only a few pages. I need more time to wrap my head around the imagery as well.

rmaclean4 This book has stayed with me! 2y
Addison_Reads Loved this one. There's a graphic novel series that reminds me of this book, 2y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @Addison_Reads That looks like a good read. I think this book would make a good graphic novel too. 2y
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Nebklvr
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The author deftly weaves history, culture, and fantasy in this novella. The characters are interesting. Plenty gory. A bit of body horror. Heather at the book store said she wrote her thesis on this book and I can see where there would be plenty of material.

SamAnne Loved this one. It felt like Zora Neale Hurston wrote a horror book. So much going on, so much packed into this short novel. 2y
Nebklvr @SamAnne There was quite a bit going on but I didn‘t feel it was overwrought. I am a wimp when it comes to horror so this was slightly to the edge of my comfort zone. I liked this one. The author made points without cramming them down my throat. I bet this was a great book to do a thesis on ( bookseller rec) 2y
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HeatherBookNerd
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This is speculative fiction/horror/fantasy/historical fiction (?) and very good. In his acknowledgements, the author says "Who says all the fantasies with sword-weilding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of African past?" He very effectively puts his sword-wielding heroine in Georgia in 1922 and the The Birth of a Nation-movie-inspired growth of the KKK. A chilling and quick read.

#readharder

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rachelsbrittain
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I love a short book from time to time so I gathered up some of the best over on Book Riot, all under 200 pages. Check 'em out!

bookriot.com/best-books-under-200-pages/

GondorGirl This is the one I used for my 3y
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HatefulGrablin
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I know I'm late getting to this one, but it was definitely worth the hype!

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TugstenDragon
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Engaging quick read!

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CBee
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#12booksof2021 #June @Andrew65
This short novella packed a HUGE punch. So good.

Andrew65 Sounds great. 3y
Addison_Reads I agree, this is a powerful read. 3y
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she.hearts.horror
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🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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cant_i'm_booked
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I really, really liked the concept of the book (c‘mon, three women fighting the Ku Klux Klan, who are actually pointy headed demons attracted to human hate). I enjoyed, as well, the incorporation of Gullah-Geechee culture, Night Doctors, root magic, the Birth of a Nation film, ex-slave narratives… but the actual synthesizing of all these different things into one story, the timeline of which is just over one week, felt too clunky.

LibrarianRyan I had to listen to this book like 4 times to keep track of everything. So unique, but so confusing. I would probably have been better to read it instead of listening to it. 3y
cant_i'm_booked @LibrarianRyan I hear you. When Nana Jean was speaking Gullah, I was happy that the author was keeping true to the creole, but I had a hard enough time keeping up/understanding, even if I was able to go back and reread the same sentence over and over.... 3y
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Jolynne
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The Klan and the hate that feeds them (and so much more to this story.)

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KatieDid927
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I loved it! I especially loved the way the author incorporated Black folklore into the story. #Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft

SamAnne Loved this one. It‘s as if Zora Neale Hurston wrote a horror novel! 3y
KatieDid927 @SamAnne Haha true! He even credits her in the acknowledgments. 3y
JLaurenceCohen Have you read Bitter Root? 3y
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IhoardBOOKS
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I loved this book, I really don‘t have much more to say then that. It was terrifying and terrific and I loved it.

SamAnne Me too. 3y
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Jen2
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Very cool story!

SamAnne Loved this one and want to read more P. Djeli Clark! 4y
Jen2 Me too! 4y
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CBee
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Holy SHIT (sorry) this was a-friggin-mazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I need more of this world, these characters. I suck at reviews and don‘t even know what else to say. ALL the stars.

AmyG Wow 4y
Annie1215 The review was effective though! 4y
CBee @AmyG READ THIS. It‘s got some gory parts and that didn‘t even bother me. It is POWERFUL. 4y
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CBee @Annie1215 add a few curse words and words like amazing and I‘m golden 😂😂 it was an incredible damn read 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
TrishB Stacked 👍🏻 4y
CBee @TrishB 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
KathyWheeler I love this author so much! 4y
CBee @KathyWheeler this is my first by him! What else of his have you read? I think I have 4y
KathyWheeler @CBee I loved A Dead Djinn in Cairo. It was the first book I read of his. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is set in the same world as Djinn; I liked it. The Black God‘s Drums is set in an alternative New Orleans and is good. His new novel is A Master of Djinn; I haven‘t read it yet. 4y
CBee @KathyWheeler all added to the never ending TBR 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
AmyG I will! When the baby leaves. I have read 1 chapter in 4 days. 🙌🏻 4y
CBee @AmyG oh my gosh Jeremy is there!! Hooray! Is it wonderful?? 🥰🥰🥰 4y
KathyWheeler @CBee They are all pretty short except for the new novel. I really hope you enjoy them. (edited) 4y
CBee @KathyWheeler I would love if he‘d write another novella or novel about Maryse and the other Ring Shout characters ♥️ 4y
KathyWheeler @CBee I hope he does. 4y
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Centique
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Oh my lord @Reggie I was so stressed out reading this book! But it was so GOOD! It‘s the kind of reading experience where you‘re tensing up ready to run or fight the whole time. And So Very Many Monsters.
I would think this novella would be enjoyed by people who like their historical fantasy a little dark and stabby. And after all who doesn‘t? 😂

Centique I‘m a little bit in love with the Aunties and want to go drink mint julep with them. Not visiting the Night Doctors. Ever. 4y
Centique @Reggie and when the brother showed up I cried 💔 4y
Cathythoughts I looked at the spoilers 😬🙄... but now I‘m stacking , I want to go out with the aunties too ... 4y
Reggie Awwwww. You know, for being a novella I could see the 3 main characters so clearly. They stood out so well in who they were. That was the strength in his writing. 4y
KathyWheeler I love this author so very much. He‘s so great at world building and at characterization. @Centique : I almost cried at that point too. 4y
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Eggbeater
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This little genre bending historical fantasy/ horror novella packs in so much and doesn't waste a sentence. It is terrifying, creative, and originally assembled. I was really impressed and suitably horrified.

LoverOfLearning Oh that's a creepy cover 4y
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This book is one of the most creative plot lines in a book I have read. I loved it! It is a mix of sci-fi/fantasy and a horror twist on Jim Crow South. It is basically a story about the release in 1915 of the movie "Birth of a Nation," and how it was used by white men to summon demons. The story is told through the eyes of the character, Marse, the kick-ass heroine in this book, who wields a sword and fights monsters. I loved this character.

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Jari-chan
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Djeli Clark really is becoming one of my favourite authors. His ideas are so unconventional. I loved how he imagined KK-members as sort of zombies. It's another way of dealing with tragedies, pain and suffering. This book sends some strong Dread Nation vibes, and actually I could accept it as some sort of sequel.

I was listening to the audio book and it made great book even better. It was astonishing and amazing!

Twainy I absolutely loved Sadie!! 🖤 4y
SamAnne I want to read everything of his! 4y
Jari-chan @Twainy I did, too! She was my favourite from the start ❤ 4y
Jari-chan @SamAnne So do I 😄 4y
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juliegumdrop
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Started this one today and going to tear through it.

SamAnne I ate this one up. 4y
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CareBear
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Mark Twain House presents an interview with P. Djeli Clark (a CT resident!), and one of my absolute favorite contemporary authors. If you haven‘t read him yet, do it!!

kspenmoll Sorry to miss this! 4y
litenthusiast I just started reading Ring Shout tonight. I'm sorry to have missed this. 4y
SamAnne Loved Ring Shout! 4y
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KathyWheeler
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I have loved everything this author has written, and this book is no exception. Set in Georgia with a strong woman of color who fights the Ku Klux Klan (some of whom are actual monsters) with a magic sword — how could I not like it. I truly worried about Maryse too and was afraid of the consequences for her of some of her decisions.

Jari-chan I'm listening to the audio book right now and it's amazing! 4y
KathyWheeler @Jari-chan I just love this author. My favorite is Dead Djinn in Cairo. He‘s got a novel coming out some time soon that‘s set in that world. 4y
Jari-chan @KathyWheeler DeadbDjinn in Cairo is great! 😍 4y
SamAnne Loved this and now want to read everything he has written. 4y
KathyWheeler @SamAnne I‘m so excited for A Master of Djinn, which comes out May 11. 4y
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