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I‘ve put in a bunch of holds for all formats of #TOBlonglist books and these are the ones my library had on the shelves. (They also had the Rooney, but I‘m not interested in it.) I‘ve read 28 so far, so I‘m in good shape! (I may be going a little overboard with all this. 😬)

Caught this pic of my husband reading while in line at the Telluride Horror Show this weekend. When we weren‘t watching fantastic horror shorts or features, we were reading horror novels! I am finally reading Cabin at the End of the World.

What to say, what to say. I am here all day for conversion camp horror, they are already horrific so makes sense to use them as settings for otherworldly horrors as well. I did struggle tracking characters in this one, sometimes having to go back and check whose perspective I was reading. Overall a worthwhile read and really some disgusting stuff.

I‘m writing this with tears drying on my cheeks.

Brilliant and devastating. I haven‘t read Manhunt so I didn‘t really know what I was getting myself into. The prologue could stand as its own short story, but is a hell of a bit of foreshadowing. We know exactly what the kids in the novel are going to face but the slow, dread-building pacing as they creep closer to that revelation is addictive.

I DNFd Manhunt a year or so ago, so when I put this on hold I actually almost cancelled the hold. But usually I try to give a new to me author a couple of tries before I decide we aren‘t soulmates and this one is SO GOOD

This was SK‘s It meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The prologue could have been its own brutal short story. A bunch of teens are sent to a conversion camp in the 90s. A camp hiding a very cosmic horror. Years later the survivors will have to go back to finish what they started. This was great. Gretchen doesn‘t care about your feelings or delicate sensibilities cause she just tells it like it is. My only issue here is is that I wish she 👇🏼

Following up Manhunt and her gory queer horror genre, author Gretchen Felker-Martin does her version of conversion camp terror. A group of LGBTQ+ teens must survive the true horrors of their gay conversion camp peoson while uncovering the macabre truth that establishment is hiding.