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Writing on this one is repelling me like a magnet. Least I can get it off the shelf!

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I just finished the Day side of this anthology & wanted to note my favorites before I move onto Night. Of the 9 stories featured in Day, there weren't any that I strongly disliked but I definitely had my favorites: Brian Evenson, Rachel Harrison, Robert Sherman & Sophie White all had great works of daylight horror.

This was a pretty good book. It was very well described and very imaginative. Im excited to read more of Joe Hills works.

When Sloane's husband surprises her with a weekend away with her wild best friend Naomi, she has reason to question his motives; he has a history of cheating and she has a history of letting it slide, part of her general life strategy of risk-averse passivity. A vampire encounter changes everything, but can it change Sloane's overthinking and self-loathing? While this vampire tale has some spicy moments, it's really about friendship, ride or die.

“Love withers two people away until they‘re threadbare and tattered. Love has such an agonizing way of destroying the familiar, the comfortable.”

Just can‘t do it. If I have to hear about the walls bleeding again, I am going to scream! This book felt more like a cozy horror story than anything actually scary. It has humor in it which is great but not what I was expecting. Looooooong chapters, slow progression in the story, repetitive and a potty mouthed daughter that overly rivals my own mouth, made me say #hailtothebail

A good story about the five children who survived a cult, four of whom have spent 15 years trying to make sense of it. Chapters from the past and chapters from the present culminate in the discovery of what really happened all those years ago. I had to suspend my sense of disbelief to get to the end of this one. A soft pick as the characters didn‘t really resonate with me, yet the mystery kept my attention.

I tried to read this book when it was first translated into English in 2020, and I couldn‘t. 2020 was too stressful a headspace for me to read this. I was sure it would give me nightmares. I‘m giving it another try now, and while it is still a nightmarish premise (humans raised and slaughtered for meat…not a spoiler, just a warning for the squeamish), the book is also well-written and beautifully translated. But I can only read it in small doses.

Finally back on Litsy - hello, again! This book was CREEPY and unsettling. The writing was great and I loved the characters. Definitely preferred this to the first two Sworn Soldier books by the same author, though those were good in a different creepy way.