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Wow. Just wow.

“The Elder malk sank its jaws into one of the Huntsman’s eyes, gripping on like a vise to the orbital bone beneath—and thus braced, the supernaturally powerful, swift cat began to rake with its rear claws. In less than a second, the last Huntsman’s throat looked like twenty or thirty pounds of pulled pork soaked in ketchup.”

Wow. Just wow,

“The Elder malk sank its jaws into one of the Huntsman’s eyes, gripping on like a vise to the orbital bone beneath—and thus braced, the supernaturally powerful, swift cat began to rake with its rear claws. In less than a second, the last Huntsman’s throat looked like twenty or thirty pounds of pulled pork soaked in ketchup.”

So accidentally put in the wrong pg# for the last update. But I can’t get over how solid the prose:
“She’s trembling, a movement so slight and so comprehensive that at first he doesn’t notice. There’s no part of her that isn’t shaking. She’s an earthquake forced into the shape of a girl, and as the door swings shut behind them, he wonders whether the fault lines at the heart of her are about to give way completely.”

I can’t believe how goooood this book is. Utterly obsessed. Slow, disjointed build. Not enough to be offputting, maintaining enough mystique to keep me going for more more answers. Which were starting to kind of get, but not really yet. Feels like something big is just around the corner 🤞

Amazing. So effing good.

Just a status update on the crew. Just them celebrating the solstice. Nothing exciting happening, and this entry kinda makes no progress. Bit of a bummer of a kindle purchase. But the main novels are awesome.

Last paragraph of last page of the version I have: "She took a step closer to Skew, until her shoulder pressed against his leg. “I don’t know what awaits us, but I don’t think the Stalker is through with us yet.”
Excerpt From: Briggs, Patricia. “Ravens Shadow.”

BT book, and version appears to have the very ending cut off. Ok, kinda slow and clunky, but earlier book of hers so understandable. Not into it enough to seek out complete book.

2/2 and though some may like it, that stuff comes off as cheesy and detracts from the stories. Plus, the stories were standalone, no companions to be found. Maybe that didn't help. DNF for me.

2/2 and though some may like it, that stuff comes off as cheesy and detracts from the stories. Plus, the stories were standalone, no companions to be found. Maybe that didn't help. DNF for me.

About villains. Authors given writing prompts for mashups featuring villain protags. The stories are ok, some are a little lame. At the end, the WP is revealed. And then each story is followed up with these bizarre vignettes from the prompter, that I suppose are supposed to be "special features" or like add-ons. They turned me off, 1/2

2/2... Then we get a damsel in distress, & another info dump (this time the setting, a little late for that too). DNF. It seems like another film-noir, gritty PI MC, which only succeed when i find their first person self-deprecating narration funny. And it fell flat here.

"THE DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES" by Simon Green: starts w MCs anecdote about tracking a missing imaginary friend & uncovering his affair w his clients wife.. the humor failed me. Muddled along talking about Dead Boy, whose background was surely a foreshadowing technique, but had the effect of plodding along the intro, & I couldn't get into the story (i like my short stories to start in the middle of the action)... 1/2

The other stories, "Clay Dog" by Kat Richardson and "Noah's Orphans". Sniegoski were good/enjoyable, but nothing to compel me to check out more of their stuff. But Sniegoskis still might be worth a peek..