so-so10 years before: four students disappear whilst on a school trip. They were supposed to complete a short orienteering challenge using a map & compass & passing various checkpoints, but Nathan Brookes, the teacher who was supposed to be keeping an eye on them went to talk to his secret girlfriend, & three of the four have not been seen since. (continued)
panBook club choice. I don‘t know how I feel about this story. It had the potential to be spooky; mother in law who killed herself haunting her son and wife-in-law. Barely got that, instead this odd obsession of said wife with pregnancy and whatever that was about making the old lady her baby. I know it was supposed to be about mother issues, but it just didn‘t click for me, at all. Just kept dragging on to me, not making sense.
Gotta say, I don't know if choosing to abandon all connection and dissolve into the universe and become a higher being is a great choice to make at 32 either
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1. The Hatchling- I felt things crawling on me for days after reading this one. So creepy!
2. Devolution- who doesn't enjoy a good Sasquatch book.
3. Infested- this novella will make you never want to leave your house for fear of being bitten by insects.
4. Stinger- great critter tale about a being from another planet causing trouble in a small Texas town.
I realize that, if I'm lucky, I will continue to get older than a lot of the leads in genre fiction, but please: don't get yourself killed by ghosts before you're even 32! It's not worth it!
And in that moment he saw her, really saw her as she now was. Her empty eyes were suddenly afire, and her panting was hot and noxious on his face and neck, and her lips, those full pouting lips he‘d always loved so, were thinned to translucence over the multitude of teeth behind them. It was a mockery of her, a Gahan Wilson portrait of his beloved. And it was going to kill him.
Now: a body is found in the area where the students went missing & an osteoarchaeologist is drafted in. She determines that the body is from the Bronze Age & not one of the missing students, but Nathan starts to be plagued with visions of the still missing students trapped somewhere. 2w
This is hands down one of the weirdest books I've ever read. It starts off normally with the disappearance but then veers off into fantasy/sci-fi territory. Now this is not a bad thing, parts of it were quite interesting, but it didn't really make a lot of sense. To me anyway. 2w
TWs: evil, cannibalism, infidelity, animal death/hunting, scenes involving a sexual element.
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Read 13th-15th Nov 2024
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