pickA dark comedy/thriller/horror YA book.
I kind of loved this one 😅
Read for reading challenges
Read to get through my #kindlebacklog
4.25/5
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pickA dark comedy/thriller/horror YA book.
I kind of loved this one 😅
Read for reading challenges
Read to get through my #kindlebacklog
4.25/5
so-soThis is the story of two teens investigating the recent murders during a summer vacation and their obsession that followed.
Told entirely from the perspective of a 13 year old girl who remains nameless throughout we start to see how her mind works as each body is discovered.
When she teams up with Miles, who is also visiting the town for his holiday, their obsession and fascination with murder grows.
This was ok for me.
The blurbs for this book say, “…two appalling children, a sinister seaside holiday and a spate of murders” and liken it to “… Roald Dahl meets Muriel Spark”. That‘s good enough for me!
I‘m a few chapters in and have already snort-laughed at some gross bits. I think it‘s classified as YA but man, this is DARK.
Have you read this, @vivastory ? I know you like a good “bad seed” tale, too. 😆 Or how about you, @Reggie ?
pickThis book isn‘t in the Litsy system yet, but I just finished the ARC of this delightfully weird book. It‘s part fiction, part poetry, part social commentary and is illustrated with some amazing pictures of monsters! Full review next month via Chicago Review of Books.
I found this book in a hotel book swap but still haven't gotten round to reading it.
What's one book on your TBR that you can't wait to read? Also who is your favourite Pokémon? ☺️?
I'm still creeped out, tbh
Really well done.
pickThis is a dark and creepy little thriller about a thirteen-year-old girl who is fascinated by murderers and death. Imagine how exciting it is, then, when bodies start turning up in the tiny coastal town where she spends her summers. Fun...if you like your ya fiction peopled with psychos. 😉
"It soon became apparent why the fisherman had been so reluctant. The body was like a chicken leg that had been stewed for too long; every time one of the men tried to pick her up, a piece of sodden flesh slid off the bone. PC Nodder shrieked as a handful of thigh came off in his hand."
pickSo weird, disturbing, and surprising. It took me a while to decide if I enjoyed this one but its one I'm keeping around. I never saw that ending coming!
"I had to eat by myself every night at the big shark-skin table in the dining room, while they shouted at each other in the next room about Mummy and her paintings (most of them portrayed Daddy as an evil centaur)."
