pickStory follows Brooklyn born and bred Sydney as she struggles to hold onto her mother‘s home, garden and her neighbors as gentrification infiltrates. Recently divorced, previously gaslit and institutionalized, when neighbors start disappearing, she starts to question if it‘s a coincidence or something more sinister.
The characters 💯
The history/social studies lesson 💯
Setting 👩🍳💋
The ending 🤔
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#scarathlon2021 #teamslaughter
I picked the 1931 version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi for my #scarepair for week 1‘s #Screamthon challenge, because I hadn‘t seen it. It‘s not much of a scare, lol. It‘s only 75 minutes long so a lot of the book was left out and also a couple of main characters. Harker doesn‘t go to Transylvania, Renfield does. Dr. Seward is Mina‘s father in the movie. There are several other changes.
pickBook 1 of #Screamthon - Amy, her plus-one, and her parents are invited to her middle grade best friend‘s wedding out of the blue. It‘s an all-expenses paid trip to Europe that no one can resist.
This has been compared to Battle Royale and Ready or Not. RoN is because it‘s set at a wedding. BR is fair, although I thought it had more similarities to The Belko Experiment. I liked it and read it in a little over a day.
Ya'll, I have a lot of posting to do today for #Scarathlon2020, so I apologize if I flood your feed. Work was good yesterday and my friends and I won the costume contest (we were Rock, Paper, Scissors... I'm sure you can guess what I was!). And I got lots of reading done!
#Scarathlon2020 #TeamHarkness @StayCurious 241pts
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pickA recent widow returning home to dark family secrets, a detective convinced she killed her husband, and some major family drama coming for both characters. I really liked this one, although it's an unusual thriller and it's not afraid to go extremely dark.
#Scarathlon2020 #TeamHarkness @StayCurious 26pts (there's trick or treating during Halloween)
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pickA smart-alec grim reaper/P.I., 3 murdered attorneys, ghosts, a big bad, a fabulous BFF named Cookie, and a red jeep named Misery.
This is one of my all-time favorite series. #scarathlon and #screamthon seemed a perfect time to do a reread. #teamharkness book 20
Book 10 for #outstandingOctober
so-soThis was a hard one to rate. The beginning is slow and drawn out, and I was bored at times. The twist is pretty nice though. I mean, the one I strongly suspected from the get go, but there's another one that I did not see coming (but that might have been because I misunderstood the timeline). I wish the twists had come earlier, bc that would have made the book more compelling. 6pts
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Update for #teamharkness in #scarathon2020 finished watching Sleepy Hollow and watched Coraline yesterday. Plus finished the weekends #littenlisten with 10 hours listened finishing off conjuring of light, and a few Poe stories. Looking forward to digging into our #buddyread A Discovery of Witches!
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pickGreat witchy read! I did feel like I was starting mid-series because there's a lot of reference to past events (thankfully, the author is releasing a short story soon that covers that event), and made for a great #Scarathlon2020 and #Screamthon read! Also part of my #BookSpinBingo card! Halloween happens during the book so 26 points!
pickBeatrix Greene is a well known medium.There's just one catch, she doesn't believe in ghosts. When James Walker, known for discrediting charlatans, offers her a large sum of money to spend a night in a haunted manor to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts shes convinced it's a trap. Confident in her ability to convince him, especially with a life changing amount $ on the line, she accepts the job. A night of frantic horror follows.
+16 points
