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Looking forward to October‘s #TitlesAndTunes #Blues

This book about a missing blues man in Arkansas fits so many challenges it better not let me down 🤣

For a song I went with Steep Canyon Rangers which is more bluegrass than blues. I need to add some blues to my life so am looking forward to the playlist.

This book probably never would have been on my radar if it weren‘t for my attempt at #50States50Scares. This was my Arkansas book and wow it‘s a heck of a debut novel. Somehow, it‘s a southern gothic/detective story/Cthulhu-ish/horror novel that just works. It‘s scary, smart, and engaging, but definitely not for everyone… very gory, really brutal, and bad stuff happens to animals, adults and kids. I really loved the main characters.

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“For a moment he felt like he had never really heard music before, like he had been missing some component of his soul that had not come shipped in the original package.”
Lewis “Bull” Ingram takes a job to the Deep South to find out what happened to Early Freeman. And gets tangled into a cosmic horror tale he might not make it out of alive. This is a stellar debut novel! #southerngods #cosmichorror

Southern Gods is a grotesque journey into blues music, possession, & mysticism. From start to finish, I was unable to put this book down. The creativity of its characters, setting, and concept blends perfectly together & casts upon its readers a spell that will keep them flipping pages well past the witching hour. While not shying away from blood & brutality, Jacobs provides his characters with heart, while focusing on social issues.

More than halfway through. This is like what would happen if the sickness of Clive Barker mated with Lovecraft in a Stephen Kingesque Southern setting. The bar scene was disturbing and it played out like some grotesque orgy of horrors. Not for the faint of heart.

This does for blues music what Videodrome did for sex tapes.

Signed from when I met Mr. Jacobs.

Not for the faint of heart. Very scary and gory. Bull was a sexy beast. Light spoilers: I feel like the last fourth of the book really went away from the original plot line and I felt like there needed more expansion about certain things that happen at the end. There is a part at the end of the book that involves a little girl that might bother some readers so just be warned in case you are sensitive to those sorts of things.

I'm not sure what the big deal withdraw 'job' things people keep raving about. It's cutting into my reading time. Oh well...just makes the RT more special

Sweet fancy Moses, I love this book!

"Tell that little dumpling that I was born a wolf, and after many years, I'm finally becoming human." Last day of summer break. Ugh. The kids here go back so friggen early. And I've been having trouble sleeping because of this bizarre condition called horror novels.

"After Wilhelmina cut his brother open, he are Karl's heart with great wrenching, tearing bites..."
And we are off with a bang!

Alright, let's see how this goes...

Score. Got this one for 2 dolla. Make ya holla!

This was a really really creepy read. Interesting premise, well written. I will not be searching the radio dial any time soon.

As Sunday evening winds down, I've started this one. A musician selling his soul to the devil? A phantom radio station which broadcasts things to drive men mad and raise the dead? Ok- I'll check it out.

He had me at—the opening scene, I guess. And then Every Single Scene After, right up until the end. I could not have been one single whit more enthralled. There's action, comedy, horror, music, history. There's metaphysics and sex and monsters—everything good, it's right here waiting for you.