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Loved it! Great prequel 👏🏻

4/5

I'm taking a break from listening to Don Quixote during my commute.. and I started listening to Jaws! 🦈

Thoroughly enjoying it, though I have to remind myself this was written in the 70's because his references to costs and what seemed expensive back then.... man, I WISH. Imagine making 8k a YEAR and still being able to afford a house and support a stay at home mom/wife and child. Yeah... right. Not in this economy!!

#currentlyreading

I actually just finished this YA Victorian horror novel and it perfectly fits today‘s #springskies prompt since the main protagonist is a transmasc autistic teen. #neurodivergent
This was really well done if brutal and touches on so many very modern issues that the historical setting only helped to highlight. I‘ve been on a YA-avoidance kick lately, but I‘m happy the cover of this one made me dive in anyway.

I loved this gothic horror and plan on recommending it to all my friends. #aardvark didn‘t miss on this one.
Book 20 of 2024

Told in a series of interviews, this tells the horrific story of what could happen if a bunch of young adults are stranded in an amusement park during a hurricane. It definitely draws inspiration from Lord of the Flies. There are some plot holes and everything goes wrong far too quickly, but overall a solid quick read. 3.5⭐️

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/dlJ2ErURQWQ

Enjoy!

It became apparent this was never going to do much for me. Had a strong start, and a rambling haunted mansion which helps. Ultimately too exaggerated and not very engaging, my mind kept wandering. The final straw was the multi page yawnfest intro of the protagonists siblings, all high fliers. Doctor, entrepreneur etc. Like Kelman was trying to make this ultra cool set of people but no family is that perfect, and I don‘t care much for them.

Overall, the pieces of gothic horror were there and worth waiting for. I enjoyed the culture of the Nahua People. There were hard hitting truths in some aspects of the horror (colonialism, racism, police brutality, etc). I think these moments were understated for its benefit. I had two big gripes with this book. I found that Gout‘s depiction of women entirely missed the mark and the editing was truly horrendous.
3/5 stars. The ending saved it!

“That was an odd thought. He supposed it must have come from his own head — where else could a thought come from? — but it somehow did not seem like his own thought at all.”

Love a good vampire story! This one even has a scene straight out of Salem‘s Lot 🧛‍♂️
Definitely set up for a sequel.