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Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay
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Butter
Asako Yuzuki
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We Burned So Bright
T.J. Klune
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WAY more confusing than I was expecting (not in a bad way). lacked the emotional impact that Bat Eater had on me but still very good, very strange, very sad. klb's writing style is so so readable, can't wait for her next.
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Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker
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had a customer come in today while I was alone with slightly odd, overfriendly energy. referred to me as his new best friend (I'd served him yesterday for the first time) and then a few minutes later he goes "ya like Japan?" and proceeds to give me a business card while telling me he has apartments there that I can stay in for free. Already strange enough but considering the way this book touches on the fetishization of Japanese/Asian women it had me feeling even more weirded out. not a conversation I was ready for at 7:30 in the morning.
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
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A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.
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Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker
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spectacular.
I'm so glad I picked this up, as I was admittedly a little sceptical about all the critical acclaim after finding SGJ's Indian Lake trilogy and The Only Good Indians equal parts rewarding and frustrating, largely due to his dense, sometimes wandering writing style. here however, it worked perfectly for me in this mostly historical setting, be it Good Stab's deeply emotive (transcribed) oral storytelling or Arthur Beaucarne's flowery journal entries. I felt the story stumbled a tiny bit in the final section but not enough that it detracted from this brutal, harrowing, despairing but thankfully not entirely hopeless tale.
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