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For fans of Michael Crichton and the X-Files Monster of the Week fans I highly recommend this book!
Do you like the Michael Crichton sci fi book equation of: Smart hero: "Oh no! All the murders around here are because of [insert made-up science jargon]! We totally should do this and not that!" Bad guy: "Ah, but I'm gonna make everyone do everything you just told us not to do!" *people die* Bad guy: "Well it's all Action Hero's fault their dead, totally not because of a scientific anomaly!" Action Hero: "Quick, we gotta not listen to Bad Guy's orders and escape this place and just BARELY make it out alive!" Heroically scoops up Smart Hero and squeezes through a secret exit. Bad Guy shakes fist as he gets gutted by totally real monster: "Curse you Action Hero!!!"

I think I like Pratchett's short stories better since he can still be silly and English but gets to the heart of the humor a lot faster!
You're still very much missed Sir Pratchett!

A good, quick, queer horror book with a little bit of mystery, some great, steamy romance, and an all-around good read!

Oh good, GR is finally gonna let me review this instead of giving me an error? Thanks.
So now that it's almost a month later here's my review of what I remember about this book:
It's your typical Brom book: goth, dark, witchy, but will take your heart on a roller coaster ride. The bad guys are infuriatingly awful people, the MCs are kind and deserve none of the hardships they must endure. Revenge ensues and it is delicious.

A great October/Halloween read!

-500 points for cat death

Second Book-Syndrome: When the second book in a series, usually a trilogy, progresses slowly, if at all, as this book is sacrificed to set up the big conclusion in the book(s) to follow. Characters may not be as loveable or charismatic as when first met in the previous book. The excitement of newness is worn off and more questions are presented rather than answered.

Either way, can't wait to read book 3!

Do yourself a favor and listen to this as an audio book read by the author himself. It's amazing! I found myself laughing out loud a lot with this book too. The MC Joey had some of the funniest phrases!
A fantastic vampire book, very dark (even if I was LOLing) with some of the most fantastic characterization I've read in a while in a horror novel.

3.5 stars
An interesting take on a murder mystery, especially when you've got dinosaur ghosts!
It got a little long in the middle there, but it made up for that with the ending.

A collection of short, horrific, disturbing stories, straight from the internet's popular CreepyPasta. Not terrifying enough to give me nightmares, and many had that Lovecraftian feel (I guess the cover illustration should have tipped me off), but definitely a lot of gruesome descriptions!

A very intriguing and different kind of book. Definitely a classic gothic horror but with wonderful sci-fi twists: parasites and a distant, post-apocalyptic future, body snatchers-esque and some of the coldest, bleakest settings I've come across! The unreliable narrator's character growth is fascinating!

Hooray! Finally, Companions!

The last book in the trilogy of the Founding of Valdemar, although I was worried there was going to be a 4th book because there was a lot of things to wrap up and only, like, 20 pages left in the book.... And wrap up they do. A little quickly while the middle of the book got a bit slow and repetitive, but it was a good ending.

+5,000 points for all the cat love. -100 for making me cry because I just recently lost our 17 year-old Kitiara and the sentiments in this book for losing a beloved cat really hit me!