This is a moderately creepy mystery, with interesting and functional Horror bits (or at least a ghost story). Lots of classic thriller/mystery/horror tropes being riffed on, inverted, subverted. A strong whiff of something like redemption, and a bright love story threaded in. Some moments of people (especially the POV) behaving dubiously, and some instances when the choice of present tense narration seems to clash with the story, but nothing crippling, and the art in the book (and in the story of the book) is a strength.
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We Will See You Bleed by Ron Currie
This novel has approximately the same strengths as The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne , though it is a prequel, and prequels face a pr...
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So, this was a book that I almost stopped reading a couple-three times. It's not *bad*, exactly, but it's a weird dissonant tonal ...
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I dunno. On the one hand there are some interesting ideas in this novel, and Cantero's prose sparkles with wit and joy. On the other h...
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This is an actual Horror novel. Not a big shock, reading the blurbs, but the jacket text makes it seem vaguely Mystery/Technothriller-ish, a...
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