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Spore

Spore Author: David Kristoph John Harmon is desperate. He is working double shifts. He is trying to do everything and anything to get enough money for his daughter’s chemotherapy, and he is completely unable to sleep. Medically unable. And it’s all wearing on him. When he finally convinces his shady brother-in-law to let him in on a secret sleep study, he thinks all of his problems are solved. They are paying him more than enough to take care of his daughter just by being in the study, and the strange, glowing blue liquid they are injecting him with is finally allowing him [...]

Frances Carden2022-02-20T10:30:00-07:00February 20th, 2022|Tags: book review, readomg, sci-fi, scifi, spore|

Count of Monte Cristo, The

How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Revenge? Author: Alexandre Dumas At 19 Edmond Dantes has everything he could ever want: a devoted fiancé, an impending wedding, a loving and self-sacrificing father, and soon the job of captain. He is doing well. Too well. His shipmate is vengeful, his downstairs neighbor weak and jealous, his soon-to-be-wife’s thwarted admirer desolate and angry. And so, Dantes’ good fortune becomes a curse. Through conniving and circumstance, his enemies see to his arrest on the day that would be his wedding. Fourteen-years later, the man who escapes prison is not the same naïve and [...]

Frances Carden2022-02-13T14:15:06-07:00February 13th, 2022|Tags: book review, classic, read, reading, revenge|

Craven Manor

Mystery Manors & Creepy Employers Author: Darcy Coates Daniel is desperate. He has been living with his cousin for months, and that situation is only becoming more strained. He is depressed, unemployed, and looking for any opportunity. So when a mysterious note with a gold coin finds its way under his door, he slides his questions aside and bikes to a remote area where a dilapidated manor, complete with crypt, overgrown garden, and newly repaired groundskeeper’s shed, awaits him. His job: return the empty place to its former glory. There are rules though: don’t go out after midnight, don’t answer any [...]

Frances Carden2022-01-16T12:57:20-07:00January 16th, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|