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Max Renner's chapter has me SHOOKETH. Holding Jane's unconscious body on his way out. Hearing Jane screaming inside the house. "The part she said the house had taken. Screaming for help while he pretended not to hear it." WHAAAT. The scream I scrumpt.

What happened to Jane and Max that Max is in hiding and Jane isn't speaking? Was it anything like what happened to Aunt Val?

Ok, so Stacy has some kind of power to manifest the dead? Or let something she made manifest them? Creepy. And super cool. I hope they'll tell us more.

"The Masson House of Degener, Texas was like the corpse of an old monster, too strange and feared for most to approach it, much less attempt to bury it. After all, it might be feigning death or dormant."

What an opening line!

That is a wildly dramatic prologue lol. And that last super graphic paragraph about the taste of a guy's cum from her teenage years? Wtf. I'm cackling, I don't know how I feel about this yet.

Poor Norbert lol, I forgot how ridiculous that whole chapter was.

Made it to cinema and the origins of Sherlock Holmes' curved pipe. And the murder of Breezy Bill Terriss. The next chapter is 58 pages, hoo boy...

first quidditch match of the season, finally. I forgot how slow this book was to get to the actual school year at Hogwarts. The first HALF of the book almost still takes place mostly in the muggle world.

Bartlett's case is fascinatingly bizarre, and at the three hundred page count, we are finally introduced to the meeting of John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Honestly, for as dense in references and footnotes as this tome is (and a tome it only can be, at near 500 pages), it's a fantastic, sometimes dryly witty read. So far a great investment.

The poison panic of the 1840s was WILD. And, as should be expected, a tool to stomp down on the working classes and poor women, servants and country women with no defenses to help them. Disgusting but predictable.

Rereading for gay fanfiction research. Fuck jkr

Oooo, love triangle territory. But like, not *really* a love triangle? More like, a will they won't they and a strongly disapproved of potential relationship rolled into one. The money trouble puts pressure on it, that's fun. Also looking forward to the "crack inside her" Carlota is trying to hide and afraid of. That's our chekov's gun.

A hundred and forty pages in. I have finally hit chapter 4. Four. Holy shit this book is dense, I love it.

Lord, there were a lot of plays about murderers and melodramas about killers. Lol I respect the hustle, but have some respect, damn.

The Greenacre spectacle is WILD, man. And we don't crown Queen Victoria until the last sentence of the chapter!

Interesting so far, the setting especially. Lush and run down, vibrant and decayed. Carlota is a little young, starting at 14 when the book begins, but I'm interested in both her childhood friends and Montgomery, who just arrived. I'm not sure where this is going yet, but I'm along for the ride.