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Leslie Allen is a librarian, sailor, amateur astronomer, and has traveled the world. Yet she somehow found herself back home in small town Nova Scotia.

She is often simultaneously plotting her next tattoo while sipping white hot chocolate and plotting the downfall of her characters. She devours stories in every medium she can find, but her favorites are movies and video games, and being eternally frustrated that they never go far enough.

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	Coal Gets In Your Veins (Vampires of Coal Dust, #1) by Cat Rector (Goodreads Author), Leslie Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revenge of Captain Vessia (Sails of Black and Blood #1) 4.32 avg rating — 79 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning To Bleed (Vampires of Coal Dust, #2) by Cat Rector (Goodreads Author), Leslie Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Seep

by Chana Porter

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Coal Gets In Your Veins (Vampires of Coal Dust, #1)

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Leslie Allen said: " There's so many things I could say about this book.

This as close as true a retelling you can get in fiction about the places in which I grew up.
This a book of hope, of blood, of damnation and finding joy despite the horrors of our lives.
A journey of There's so many things I could say about this book.

This as close as true a retelling you can get in fiction about the places in which I grew up.
This a book of hope, of blood, of damnation and finding joy despite the horrors of our lives.
A journey of being doomed by the narrative, doomed by the traumas of our parents, doomed by the curse of the places of our birth. Rector's mastery of dark fantasy strikes again.

This book asks so many questions that I resonated with; questions about how how much are we formed by the places we grew up in, about how much hopelessness there is in feeling 'stuck' in those places, and the characterization of a place filled with so much pain.

The story of Coal is from three points of view, starting with Laurel, one of the people from this cursed place who feels all of those things mentioned previously. The trauma of her family's past and present, feeling trapped in an abusive relationship, and how she is so very close to her breaking point.

Next there is Spencer, a vampire who's lost everything, and came to the most unthinkable place he could find to wallow in his grief. In this place he's erected a tomb of personal suffering, matching his pain with his loss, reflecting the guilt he feels.

The collision course these two are set upon will change everything for both of them, despite trauma's hold on both their souls.

And then, there's the vignettes spoken in the point of view of Penny Harbour, one of which I've had the pleasure of writing. They are reflections of the trauma seeping into the area, the collectivized core of suffering of the town, each a telling of fear and horror and the hold Penny Harbour has on it's citizens.

I hope you like this book, and that it brings you some form of catharsis. That it makes you think about your own community, family, and wonder about how much it costs to change your circumstances. Because at the end of the day, just because change is hard, doesn't mean it's not worth striving for, even if there is coal in your veins. ...more "

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