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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen – Book Review
Roos Beckman has had a spirit companion since childhood. Ruth has meant she was never alone, not even in her darkest moments and with Roos mother there are many dark moments. Roos Mother forces her to perform as a medium in back room séances, and in 1950’s Netherlands there are plenty of clients. Ruth is the spirit of a centuries old body in the bog that latched on to Roos keeping her company as her mother uses her to scam the neighbours. When the wealthy Agnes Knoop attends one of the séances trying to speak to her husband, Roos and Ruth finally find a way out of their current life…
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Bunny By Mona Awad – Book Review
Samantha is an outsider in the fiction department at Warren University, it’s overrun by Bunnies. The Bunnies are rich and feminine, they are childlike they fawn over each other at every moment and for every major and minor accomplishment. Samantha is not a Bunny, she’s a loner her Moms dead, her dads gone and her only real friend is Ava. When out of the blue the Bunnies (nicknamed by Samantha Duchess, Cupcake, Vignette and Creepy Doll) invite Samantha to their Smut Salon she has to go just once, and from there Samantha begins to fall into the Bunnies lifestyle. The Workshops make the Smut Salons look tame, its experimental, its…
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Book Review – We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Eve and Charlie have just bought an old fixer-upper in the Oregon woods. Their plan is to fix it up and flip it. While Charlie is out one night, Eve hears a knock at the door when she opens it she discovers a family of five on her doorstep. The father, Thomas, says he used to live in the home and just wanted to show the family wife Paige and three kids the house as they were travelling past on the way to the their new home. Could they just come in for a moment and look around? Against her better judgement, Eve lets them in for 15 minutes, but…
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