This book is, first and foremost, about loss and grief. I had so many things I wanted to say about this book but it all fled my mind because, in a cruel twist of fate, I finished this audiobook while digging a grave in my garden for my cat who was on his way out. Yeah, and that was right around when Wilford comes into the story....
I loved how it was kinda haunted house story, kinda eldritch horror, and a couple other horror tropes sprinkled in, but it is also a wonderful book about dealing with grief. Or not dealing with it. And the horror of the one person who knew the real you leaving you alone on this plane of existence (as you know it). What is heaven? Or the afterlife? Or our concept of reality and life at all?

A little slow to start, but the ending made me not want to put it down! I would compare this to the fantasy-feel of Kingfisher's Nettle and Bone but I didn't fall in love with the characters as much as I did in her other stories. They were still great and amazing, don't get me wrong! And no one writes strong, independent, fierce, but flawed, female characters quite like T. Kingfisher!

The world is a vampire? No, men are vampires, sent to drain women of their freedoms and dreams and self-love. Especially Dracula. What a self-entitled prick! Don't let them (him) make you hate your fellow woman for they are going through the same thing. Together you are stronger. Or even fall in love with a fellow girlboss who is there for you to pick you up when you're down, show you your true potential and become the best you (without having to join a weird cult)!

Does any of that sound good to you? Then read this book! Excellent feminist take on the "brides" of Dracula, especially Lucy Westenra.

The moral of this book is that toxic masculinity is bad. A message that you're kinda beaten over the head with (well, if not you, almost quite literally to some characters in this book). In the shadows I think there lurked some feminism, but that might just be these angry, feminist-colored glasses I've been wearing lately.

I guess this is technically a haunted house book, much like you could call The Overlook hotel a haunted hotel. It wasn't really the house that was haunted but the creatures/spirits/deities in it, and together they shaped the house/hotel, making it alive and a character itself.

Also, I need to not read Nick Cutter books while on my lunch break. +100 points for many scenes making me go on an unintentional diet because I didn't feel like finishing my lunch a couple times. -200 points for the gruesome, horrible turtle death. Why Nick? Why do you hate turtles so much??? (LOL, I'm glad you addressed this in your author's note).

I've never read Andrew F Sullivan before, the co-author of this book, so I wonder how he is on his own.

Anyway, lots of body horror, kinda cringey, heavy-handed on the toxic masculinity, not enough depth to some of the characters.

VERY fluffy, m/m fantasy that almost made me think this was originally a fanfic-made-published novel. My money is on Supernatural fanfiction (Charlie, Dean and Cas are my guess). It was a little too saccharine for my tastes, but an easy read (or listen) with a fantastical land and setup that made me feel like I was back to being 9 years old reading Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville. That's the vibes I was getting, very much. So, if you want a fluffy, mlm fantasy that takes you back to your Scholastic Book Fair days of fantasy books, but with characters about the same age as you, then I recommend this book.

I feel like the author had some intriguing thoughts but wasn't able to really make them fit in very well. The writing was pretty juvenile and the pacing odd. I could NOT get into the characters. I am not a fan of "all the MCs are terrible people", and that's a personal preference, so I won't hold that against the author. I finished the book since it's a quick, short read, but I feel that if you want a story about AI gone rogue, there are much better options out there.

King's best suspenseful, page-turner, for sure! The movie ruined it, as now I can only picture Anne as Kathy Bates, since she did such a wonderful job acting. Some excellently gruesome moments!

A great anthology of short stories to make you uncomfortable and uneasy. Not scared, just uneasy, which is almost as good in my book! Like any short story anthology with different authors, there's some good stories, some not-so-great, and a few that will linger in your brain for a while.

3.5 because without this book to keep me company while I was sick, I would have gone insane.
It wasn't great, but not bad. The characters were stereotypical and the ending reveal I kinda saw coming, but it was still a fun enough romp of a murder mystery!