What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
T. Kingfisher
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
Publication Year: 2022
The book is reaching its climax and we, the audience, are presented with a legal jargon joke followed almost immediately by a d*ck joke. Simply immaculate writing from T. Kingfisher 😂😂
0"Damnable English language—more words than anybody can be expected to keep track of, and then they use the same one for about three different things." LMAO, I'm sharing this with my ex-English teacher boss 😂😂
0Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but there is a fairly decent amount of humor in this book, particularly in the anecdotes Easton and Denton share with one another and Roderick. I guess I've just been less squeamish or freaked out than expected and laughed more a good bit over the course of the book thus far.
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