⭐️ This book started out pretty good. Once I realized where it was going I was totally uninterested. It was a stupid premise to me and an even worse ending.
⭐️ This book started out pretty good. Once I realized where it was going I was totally uninterested. It was a stupid premise to me and an even worse ending.
Southern gothic, folk, and maritime horror. Chapman does it again, still proving to be one of my favorite horror novelists. A search for a lost infant runs awry as Madi, a palm reader (con artist) becomes involved. What Kind Of Mother would abandon a child? What Kind Of Father would bring it back? What Kind Of Mother would stay? The graphic depictions made me nauseous at times. Gory body horror & truly excellent! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #twowitches #hauntedshelf
8-19-24: My 29th finished book of 2024! I have no idea what I just read! It started off one way, woman who had a baby young and was cast out of her home returns to town with her baby now a teenager and her life in shambles. While her daughter is learning to live with her Dad, Madi is living in a motel reading palms. Then her old flame, Henry, shows up. He‘s been through major hardship and needs help finding his way. Then everything goes haywire.
8-12-24: Starting a new one on the beach in Rehobeth, Delaware. 💖📖🎺🏖️
What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman is a story of love and loss nestled in a community whose gossip is as murky as the creeks that fracture its landscape.
CW: Miscarriage, animal death, child death, grief, natural disaster & more.
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If you've seen my Litsy posts, you know I like weird books. In fact, I love books in which super-off-the-wall stuff happens in the service of portraying true emotional reactions. However, this novel has the first without the second. It's a changeling story, which is cool, but I don't really buy the characters' reactions. And the repeated use of the phrase "the muck and the mire" has "Hang Me Up to Dry" by Cold War Kids stuck in my head.
This was another bonkers listen, but this time in the best possible way! I had no idea where this story was going and just held on through the twisted, horrific ride. It was one of those stories that I don‘t even really know what I read but I know I enjoyed the experience of going through it 🤣. I really have enjoyed this author‘s writing! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Book 184📚 3.4⭐️
Very strange haha. It definitely took a different turn than what I was expecting. 🐚🦀🪼🐝🪱