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Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts
Thursday, December 1, 2022
BLACK HEARTS BOYS' CHOIR (Book Review)
James is joined once again by Kari to discuss another book we both read--Black Hearts Boys' Choir--and this time they actually have the author--Curtis Lawson--along with, discussing his book, music, and going down various other rabbit trails, as per your usual M+B episode! Lucien Beaumont is a teenage misfit and musical prodigy ostracized by his peers and haunted by familial tragedy. When he discovers an unfinished song written by his dead father—a song that holds terrible power—Lucien becomes obsessed. As he chases after the secret nature of his father's music, the line between gruesome fantasy and real life violence begins to blur. To complete his father's work Lucien believes that he and his group of outcast friends must appease a demonic force trapped within the music with increasingly sadistic offerings. As things spiral out of control he finds that the cost of his art will be the lives of everyone around him, and perhaps his very soul...
Saturday, October 22, 2022
FELLSTONES (Book Review)
It's the first time back for Kari, as she joins James in reviewing a Movie for the Mind (that would be a book, in case you're scratching your head over that one), and just in time for the Spooky Season, the horror novel Fellstones, by Ramsey Campbell! Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It’s where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he’ll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they’re about to waken...
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