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I left all my responsibilities behind and finally feel free to rest, to read. Nearing the end of this strange little book I started in January. Feels absolutely wonderful.

"He lounges with one arm supporting his head, surrounded by the carnage his imminent death has triggered...soothed to see the destruction of everything he has owned before he also dies, believing that he will find it all around him when he wakes again on the other side of his death, the fragments of porcelain miraculously reunited, the wounds of the women and horses and slaves miraculously healed."

Image: La Mort de Sardanapale by E. Delacroix

Quenched my craving for bubble tea and finally sat down to read. A momentous occasion because I've gotten no reading done in months and months and months, so I'm feeling great right now.

Some excellent ideas and a brilliantly tense and unsettling atmosphere in early parts but then it starts to flounder and become disconnected. A sense of time and place never emerge and the sparse hints of a history are not enough to ground it. The (many!) loose ends and unexplained elements seem more a result of the writer's own confusion about his story than a deliberate technique. And I HATE it when characters fortuitously find answers in books!

When your to-read list becomes less realistic and more aspirational. #oopsididitagain #usedbooksaremykryptonite #bookhaul

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & a bonus🌟 LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS BOOK!! The story of Morgan Fletcher, a disfigured recluse living alone with his housekeeper in a huge mansion, and a group of mysterious children who appear out of nowhere and take up residence with him. Gothic, mysterious, supernatural, extremely thought provoking, and intense! I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was a little piece of perfection!!

4/5. I loved this book. Ghosts of 👶🏻 buried in the soil, the ending to ponder about life. If you pick up the book think roald Dahl and the meaning behind all fairy tales is a moral to be had. Give it a try. I dare you 👹👹👹👹~Lucid

#TBRtemptation post! I want, I want, I want 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! Gothic magical realism horror anyone?! I thought so 😎👌🏻. In the vein of Shirley Jackson, Neil Garman, & Roald Dahl, this debut novel revolves around a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse on his estate & his country doctor. The children behave...straanngely. Hooked yet 😆?! Think Narnia or Golden Compass inverted. Whaaat? #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Singularly weird.

I tried to take a photo of a creepy book by some creepy Halloween flowers, but it came out looking like a creepy book wearing a creepy Ronald McDonald wig! #accidentalspookiness #booktober #allhallowsread

Snuck out for some lunchtime reading! It's beautiful today! #booklunch #booktober

Can't believe I found this at a community book sale today! #winning

The first half of this book was great. Super creepy kids popping up out of nowhere and a harrowing backstory on the main character had me DYING to find out what was going on. The second half of the book made NO sense. It gave me a headache trying to understand. Still, I give it 3 🌟🌟🌟 because it did creep me out.

Starting this one on my kindle today!! It's one of the first books I stacked when I joined Litsy! I can't remember who read it, but thank you to whoever it was for posting about it! It sounds right up my alley. As soon as the baby is down for a nap, I'll be back for #somethingforsept day 7.

Has anyone else read this?!? I'm just starting and don't know what to think...

More than half way through and I'm wondering why I chose this.....because I read it resembled Neil Gaiman. Something better happen soon.

Midway in - riveting

This book 😩 So far im loving the story and the writing. Its different than anything ive read lately which is a nice change.

Reviewed by Thalia https://goo.gl/RgDuwz

This is a bizarre book. I usually don't go in for the weird, but this was pretty good.

Im going through one of those periods where i just cant settle on a book...Im too restless with the books i grab from the library, but i have high hopes for this book...

Currently reading while the kids are going wild at Bounce U. This book is creepy so far.

Part of Operation: Read My 2016 Books Before the Damn Paperback Comes Out.

I might be a bit out of my comfort zone with this one. I'm finding it to be a little unsettling.

Dark, unsettling & atmospheric, this book had a lot going on, but all of it felt elusive. The prose is stylish & evocative, but it needed more ...something? The end was not satisfying & a bit WTF? But I'm giving it ??? on the writing & imagination. Need to reread to get to that "Aha!" moment.

Me, the littlest owl, the dog, about a million stuffed animals, The Descendants and The Children's Home. 😋 Lazy Saturday.

I've heard really good things about this one. #literaryloot

Deceptive, unsettling, and lingering. A disfigured son of wealth and an ever-growing group of mysterious children who show up at his door with full knowledge of who he is. A short work of fiction difficult to categorize. -Nick R.