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#roll100 read and a soft pick from me - the pacing was a little off but this ramped up by the end - it felt Rosemarys baby-esque to me. Eloped all the discussion of old film too!

Won a #kindle book from #GoodReads
I‘ve won 4 or so books over the past few years.

This is certainly not the first bail of the year but it‘s going to be a memorable one.

I want to love this book. And I want to love this author. Every synopsis I‘ve ever read from this man is so intriguing but I can‘t connect with his writing to save my life. After 24 pages of this one I thought I‘d lost all of my reading comprehension skills. I also briefly thought I might be having a stroke. But ultimately I think this one just wasn‘t for me.

https://wildwoodreads.com/2025/07/18/dnf-diaries-the-buffalo-hunter-hunter/

Set during a time when Black Americans were empowered to correct centuries of wrongs, This Cursed House is as much about empowerment and self-discovery as it is about the ugliest form of intra-race hatred—colorism. Featuring a host of fair-skinned antagonists too shallow to realize segregation begins at home, it offers a glimpse into why the South is as gothic and horrific as the intergenerational trauma it breeds.

Best described as social commentary disguised as fiction, readers experiencing personal and cultural disruption will find themselves fiercely grounded in place.

Eenie meenie miney moe. Which one next?

The Good: great writing, atmospheric setting, unsettling events that left me gritting my teeth, was left wondering what I'd just read

The Bad: was left wondering what I'd just read.

3 or so stars. More like 3.5? Yeah. 3.5 stars.

Solid 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 on Goodreads. I think this book could‘ve been shorter but overall I enjoyed it. It picked up more towards the end & I predicted part of what happened but it was still a good story overall. Right mix of the supernatural or was it? I would read this author again.

Pancakes with griddled bananas and a spooky read before heading to my Inflectra infusion. Happy Friday!

A restrained horror novel that unfolds with eerie calm, only to erupt into visceral terror in its final act.

True to Japanese horror, Audition delays its descent until the end, where emotional repression gives way to torment and psychological collapse, where trauma festers beneath social decorum and violence erupts from emotional neglect. The horror here isn‘t supernatural; it‘s human, intimate, and inevitable.