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"I guess let's split up---" Nick started to say.
"No," Lore said firmly. "We do not split up."

At last!!! Someone has learned from horror novels gone before, thank all the Old Gods lol

Woohoo!!! Won a free copy of this through a goodreads giveaway from St. Martin's Press -- cannot wait to get started!!

So far I am not impressed with Pius XII.

Uh oh -- a fatal error not to wait and make certain before that final step....

My suspicions now encompass the nature -- and indeed the very existence -- of Kenneth...

I begin to think we have an unreliable narrator...

...and now I'm worried about the Airedales, too
...

I'm worried about Claude...

Love the idea that fiction is our superpower :)

So far I'm intrigued. Not sure I agree that a species can have a personality though :)

Yes!!!!! We go to the Library of Alexandra and its collection of scythes' journals!!!!

"Are you still there?"

"What? Yes. Sorry. I was trying to imagine sticking something up a lion's ass. I don't think I'm quite there yet."

*chortle*

Silly McManus, surely it won't be a *real* lion?

Well, there it is then: the Last Man sets sail with his dog. (Really, you'd think he'd know better than to trust a boat, though. ) Now I can go back and read the introduction without fear of spoilers!

"Oh! Grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives it's own colours to all."

Noooo! Don't go in the boat!!

"Men love a prop so well that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear..."

The Countess is back again! She's like a bad penny, or gum on the bottom of your shoe.

oh ffs...

The title appears in the text! In ALL CAPS so you can't miss it.

Author really likes the verb "pant" in all its forms, including adjectival and adverbial.

"The last blessing of humanity was wrested from us: we might no longer hope." Grim stuff...

Aha. I was wondering what had happened to the unpleasant Countess, and here she is, still nasty. One wonders how she managed to get to Windsor from Gernany, what with the plague and all.

Ah, not Philadelphia -- Africa and the Middle East, eternal scapegoats: "Child of the sun and nursling of the tropics...[plague] drinks the blood of the inhabitant of the South, but it never feasts on the pale-faced Celt." O rly?

More plague, finally! But they're blaming it on Philadelphia, which seems unlikely.

Plague was apparently a teaser. Everyone still alive. Is it just me or is Raymond kind of a jerk?

wtf Evadne srsly?

Aha, plague at last!!!