Good morning and happy Monday.
Who is ready for a long weekend this weekend? I know that I am!
I didn’t plan it this way but I got to thinking about what I was reading and these are some of my favorites. This week is going to be favorite authors week.
This week I’m going to read a spooky tale about surviving your murder, a book about finding lost people, and a manga by the master of horror!
What are you reading this week?
How to Survive Your Murder- Danielle Valentine
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sisterโs murder trial.
And in the year since Claireโs death, Aliceโs life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, sheโs moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sisterโs killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior.
Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each otherโs best friends.
Until Claire was taken away from her.
On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween morning a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.
A History of Wild Places- Shea Ernshaw
Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. Jamesโa well-known author of dark, macabre childrenโs booksโheโs led to a place many believed to be only a legend.
Called “Pastoral,” this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldnโt exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon itโฆ he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.
Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travisโs abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when thereโs a risk of bringing a diseaseโrotโinto Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isnโt as safe as they believedโand that darkness takes many forms.
Hauntingly beautiful, hypnotic, and bewitching,ย A History of Wild Placesย is a story about fairy tales, our fear of the dark, and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind.
Tomie- Junji Ito
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.
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