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Darkness Below
Darkness Below | Barbara Cottrell
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2023 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Fiction - Horror genre! Nightmares. Disappearances. Suicide. Fall semester is always a challenging time at Miskatonic University. All Ellen Logan wants to do is pass her classes while holding down a bad job at a New Age bookstore. But when a former roommate jumps to her death from the university clocktower and another friend vanishes, leaving her with a mysterious book, she embarks on her own investigation. With the help of renowned professor Andrew Carter, she uncovers evidence of a murderous cult, a terrifying creature, and a ghost who knows far too much about her. To survive, Ellen and Carter must descend into the Darkness Below to stop the forces that threaten to tear their world apart.
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swynn
Darkness Below | Barbara Cottrell
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Mehso-so

(2023) First in a Lovecraftian dark urban fantasy series featuring a professor and a student at Miskatonic University. In this one they battle Chthonians, with a showdown in an abandoned mine; and face their own pasts, with drama to be played out as the series develops. Mixed feelings: the story is fine, but I'm not comfortable with the blossoming student-teacher romance. That, and nitpicky copy-editing gripes, mean I probably won't continue.

Bookwomble Ah, I thought this looked interesting when I saw the cover and that it's lovecraftian, but, yeah, sounds like it might go the wrong kind of icky. 3d
swynn @Bookwomble Others have liked it, and I'm a bit romance-averse anyway, so YMMV. But myself, I spent two-thirds of the book trying to psychically communicate to the H & h, “Don't. Just don't. Do not,“ and while they didn't in this episode, they also didn't seem to pay me much attention. 3d
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