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"What had wakened him? The impression of a series of faint sounds brought to mind the play of fingers on a keyboard bereft of strings - a succession of dry clicks."

Campbell is so good at thoroughly giving me the creeps.

This has gotten really good and quite horrific. I'm glad I pushed past my waning interest in the beginning of the book.

This book is very dense and the font is small. Reading 20 pages feels like reading 50. I'm enjoying the story enough to deal with it, however.

My Pathology - This story is so f*cked up. I love it.

Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear - 5⭐
Closet Dreams - 4.5⭐
Born Dead - 4⭐
Replacements - 3⭐
A Birthday 3.5⭐

Feast by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - 4⭐
The Terror By Night by Bridget Collins - 4.5⭐

"My lips were on the point of producing one of those impertinent 'why don't yous' when I bit my tongue. That's just what the color magazines do...they tell us what we've failed to do, where we've messed up, what we've neglected; ultimately, they set us on ourselves, filling us with self-contempt. So I didn't say a word. Other people's life stories are not a topic for debate."

A Midnight Visitor by Susan Stokes-Chapman 3.5⭐
An Artful Curse by Jess Kidd 4⭐
An Age of Evil by Stuart Turton 3.5⭐

Two Go Together by Imogen Hermes Gowar and The Signal Bells by Natasha Pulley, both 4⭐

"Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means “the dropping of petals.” The world has dropped its petals."

There I go again, making fake goodreads updates in my sleep.

The Bugle and the Drum by Andrew Michael Hurley - 4⭐

23 Bridge Street by Stacey Halls - 4⭐

The Second Witness by Laura Shepherd-Robinson - Great twist ending, 4⭐

The Doll's House by Elizabeth Macneal - 3⭐️