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MeganAnn
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My April #roll11 read was this delightful cozy mystery.
Jane is the manager of Storyton Hall, a bookish resort set in rural Virginia. To bring more business to the hotel, she plans a Murder & Mayhem retreat themed around murder mystery books. Of course one of the guests turns up dead in his room & she must figure out why.

Jane‘s aunt & uncle have a secret legacy that I found added a lot to the story once it was revealed to Jane. ⬇️

MeganAnn I also found the supporting characters to be a lot of fun including her twin sons who of course run around getting into everything, her friends from town, and the resort staff. I‘ll definitely pick up the rest of the series at some point as I‘m looking forward to seeing where it goes next. 4⭐️ 4d
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 3d
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DimeryRene
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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This is a wild book! I think it accomplished exactly what it set out to do. We follow a family of four as each succumbs to far right wind propaganda in different ways: news, wellness, internet chatrooms, technology. Each turns into a monster/zombie literally possessed by conservative ideology. Very violent, hints of bird box and the purge.

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vivastory
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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This is the craziest horror novel I have read all year. It is also probably the most divisive. Which is unfortunate, because it has a really important message. Wake Up & Open Your Eyes is like old school Stephen King for the social media era, I will say that at several points while reading I was like, “Wow, Clay you really went there,“...and my macabre black soul loved him for it. ☠ 💔

TheBookHippie ♥️ 1w
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Kshakal
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Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

#two4tuesday

1. 100% I do
2. Tagged

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

TheSpineView YW! Thanks for playing! Have a great day! 3w
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DrasticallyJill
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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When your internal monologue switches to Anderson Cooper (admittedly, mine has at some points), because your family is now ‘possessed‘ to do unspeakable disgusting things based on media brain rot…well, should you think you‘re any better? Our media consumption is the downfall of society in this story. One I consider amazingly crafted and particularly disturbing. Ironically unironically sharing on social media, hashtag. 😁

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GerardtheBookworm
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Mehso-so

A horror political satire that is going to appeal to a certain demographic. A bizarre media source transforms closed-minded individuals and their audience into possessed violent zombies. Those trying to escape the chaos are pitted against this cult of monsters until society and civilization eventually deteriorate. A good premise, but the repetition of prose could have been tweaked and requires more editing.

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DebinHawaii
Tomorrow River | Lesley Kagen
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#CoverStories

I have eight #River books on my Kindle. I just finished & LOVED Frozen River & read Follow the River Home several years ago. The the others are still in my TBR. 🏞️

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 👏🏻 1mo
Eggs Lovely! 1mo
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Aconight
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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4 ✨ Unsettling, Savory & Grotesque

Not my preferred sub-genre within horror but I was highly entertained from start to finish. Plethora of social commentary. Some feeling too close to home. Plenty of body horror & emphasizes on family division specifically through a political scope. Was enthralled with watching the family slowly disintegrating, not only mentally but physically. I could not help but devour the entirety.

AmyG Oooo I have not seen the ginger/lemon flavor. 🙌🏻 2mo
Aconight @AmyG my favorite & it‘s great for my inflammation 2mo
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HiMyNames_Alyssa
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Oh. My. Gosh. This was such a good story. No One is safe in this expose of how media rots our brains, even the "good guys" will get called out. If you're in the mood for a poignant, political, apocalyptic horror, this one is definitely worth it. Gives a while new meaning to the term "doom scrolling."
Check trigger warnings if you're squeamish, it is horror after all.

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KathyWheeler
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Mehso-so

This book was just okay. It had a great premise, but the execution is a bit lacking. The politics are too heavy-handed, and I‘m not one who minds an author being political. I don‘t get why gross sex scenes had to be used so often to denote evil. There‘s one section, where we watch a whole family fall apart, that is just too long. I did finish it though. #audiowalk