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I also finished my July #doublespin in the month it was picked. Who am I?

Set shortly after lockdown, which was a bit of a horror to me, Harry is just trying to keep a job and take care of her teenage son. Harry is a cleaner for a reclusive horror film director hiding from society. This book is more of a quiet gothic horror.
As with other Henry books I have read some of the horror comes from real life: poverty, housing and food insecurity, ⬇️

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

Another great book by this author

I enjoyed it the whole way through

Read for reading challenges

4/5

Fast paced and focused. The protagonist is a fierce mother, and far from a “final girl”. I appreciated how the focus is on the situations faced by many-eviction, employment, etc.-actual horrors. I wish more was said about the setting/background, but it‘s intentional. It‘s a great story and quick-but great-read.

I'm not sure Christina Henry wanted to write a horror novel. The majority of the work, I appreciated how well constructed the main character was, how strongly you get a sense of someone keeping poverty at bay, having escaped an oppressive, borderline abusive/neglectful, religious upbringing, survived homelessness and constantly vigilant in supporting a kid as a single parent without a high school diploma in a gentrifying area. 1/?

I can see utility in possessing both options: resting bitch face and Active Murder Face. 😑😡

Not gonna lie, if Polonius was the apt analogy brought out for any pontificating I did, I would devastated. 😩😆

Say it louder. 👏🏻

#HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper #HexesandCrows @Catsandbooks #BookRecommendations

1. The House that Horror Built- fast, spooky read with a different twist on the haunted house trope.
2. Assassination Classroom- another great manga series.
3. Edenville- this is a current read, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
4. A Sunny Place for Shady People- love this author! Great mix of horror, social commentary, and folklore.

Book 69📚 2.9⭐️

A so-so rating because most of the “meat and potatoes” happened in the last 10 pages and felt super rushed… the reveal could have been a bit more drawn out and dramatic.

Perhaps if he had been preserved IN the suit?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is a very different book. It shows inspiration from gothic and horror classics - Jane Eyre & Psycho in particular. More than a horror, this feels like a family drama/mystery. I particularly liked the mother/son relationship at the heart of the story. I can see many being very frustrated with the main character, and I definitely empathized with her but she still was crazy stubborn at times.⬇️

It was a book. Meh.

I enjoyed this horror novel even when there were times that the story felt repetitive. All in all a pick.
Book 29 of 2024

This was so disappointing. This is the 2nd Christina Henry book I‘ve read in about a month and I think her writing just isn‘t for me. The dialogue seems stilted and the characters one dimensional. There‘s so little horror and so much filler that I honestly started to skim so I could just figure out how it would end. And it ended just how I thought- so predictable! I did finish it, though, so there‘s that 🤷🏼‍♀️. 🌟🌟

Sadly this was an extremely predictable novel; there was very little within this novel that surprised me. The story itself is rather fast-paced–I flew through it relatively quickly–but it honestly lacked any real horror. I think the most twisted thing about the entire narrative was Javier himself. I also felt as though the ending was rather abrupt and left a lot of unanswered questions; it was almost like Henry didn‘t know how to end the novel.

Recent book hauls! I found the top book in a #LFL near me and went and got the bottom books while out celebrating Mother‘s Day. They all seem like perfect Summer reads 😍. Happy Mother‘s Day to all that are celebrating 🎉 🥂 📚