Slender: The Arrival
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You're on your own. No one to come for you. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Slender:...
Genesis of a Music
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Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974)...
Wd-50: The Cookbook
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The first cookbook from one of the world’s most groundbreaking chefs and a pioneering restaurant...
Life Among the Terranauts
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Following her "marvelous" (Wall Street Journal) first novel, Caitlin Horrocks returns with a...
The Girl In Between
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Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes...
Diary of a haunting
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When Paige moves from LA to Idaho with her mom and little brother after her parents’ high-profile...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Splits in Books
Apr 22, 2023
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The Splits
By M.V Clark
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Imagine an eerie, parallel London living through a mysterious pandemic…
Two sisters escape a traumatic childhood to build perfect lives. Then one day Anna’s husband starts losing his mind. And Claire’s son becomes so volatile she’s frightened to be around him.
A terrifying disease known as ‘the splits’ lingers on the streets of the city. The science is definitive – the splits is quick, gruesome and fatal. There can be no link to what ails the men in Anna and Claire's families.
Except that nothing about this disease is what it seems. Evidence is emerging of a slow-burn variety, which infects its victims so stealthily it is invisible until the terrible end-stage.
A maverick researcher is touting a risky experimental cure. Anna rejects this as a dangerous fantasy.
But for Claire, it is her only chance to save her disintegrating boy.
What happens next changes the sisters' lives forever, as they fight themselves and each other for one last shot at happiness.
This was totally different to your average zombie infection read. I really enjoyed it. The characters and their lives were so interesting and it was definitely a different take on what makes a “zombie”. Very clever writing.
Spark
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People are dying downtown, their bodies shriveled away to almost nothing. The police are mystified,...
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Our Evenings
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Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous...
Dutch (59 KP) rated Experimemtal Film in Books
Mar 11, 2019
Enlisting the help of a former student she becomes embroiled in the tale of Lady Midday and the tragic Whitcombe family.
The first part of the book very much focuses on Lois, her husband Simon, their autistic son Clark and her mother Lee with whom she has a strained relationship. Lois has seen her career fail, her health is not far behind and she feels guilty at the inability to love her son the way she feels she should.
As the story of Lady Midday unfolds she finds herself sucked into a story much darker and terrifying than she ever could have imagined.
Experimental Film is what I would call a gentle ghost story with the majority of the book focussed on Lois and her family and the struggles she must overcome to maintain her health, her project and ultimately her son.
I enjoyed the story but would not call it a horror story but rather a character focused tale with a subtle dash of the supernatural and a book worth seeking out.