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Cargando... Malice House (The Malice Compendium) (edición 2022)por Megan Shepherd (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Megan Shepherd has written a seriously spooky mystery with plenty of red herrings, shocking twists and even a few scares, making it a chilling thriller with a totally immersive setting. At the same time, it is a deliciously dark fantasy that certainly shows the power of certain stories and the hold they can have on the reader. It's simply haunting, full of secrets and yet strangely charming. This horror/mystery solely follows Haven’s perspective. I found it engaging, but it started to lag a bit around the middle, but then the conclusion really picked up with so many things happening all at once. Haven made several unwise choices and ignored a slew of red flags, but it helped to make the story interesting and intriguing. Since this is a horror story, there are many dark and gruesome themes throughout that may not be to everyone's liking, however the author did a great job of creating an ominous and disorienting atmosphere. Overall... Malice House is a great read for lovers of horror stories and would be an excellent choice for the Halloween season. Malice House by Megan Shepherd surprised me. I was not expecting the level of gore or horror that I read. Don’t get me wrong. I liked what I read, and the story continues to haunt me. In Malice House, Ms. Shepherd plays with the adage regarding the power of the pen wherein the pen, or another artistic medium, literally has the ability to bring monsters to life. As if monsters hunting you are not enough horror, Ms. Shepherd adds untrustworthy acquaintances, a dark and creaky house that may or may not be haunted, odd burglary attempts, and a strange neighbor to the creep factor. Where the story ends is not at all expected and is what keeps you thinking about Malice House long after you finish it. For any reader, there is no higher praise than that. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
From New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd comes a complex tale of dark magic, family secrets, and monsters that don't stay on the page. "A propulsively charming nightmare, pooling like spilled ink across your imagination." â?? Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of Hide "Haunting and beautifully written . . . an exploration of the mysterious power of stories." â??Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Last to Vanish "One step away from our world lies another: a land of violent fantasies, of sharp-toothed delights. . . ." Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father's remote seaside house, Bedtime Stories for Monsters was not on the list. This secret handwritten manuscript is disturbingly different from his Pulitzer-winning works: its interweaving short stories crawl with horrific monsters and enigmatic humans that exist somewhere between this world and the next. The stories unsettle but also entice Haven, practically compelling her to illustrate them while she stays in the house that her father warned her was haunted. Clearly just dementia whispering in his ear . . . right? Reeling from a failed marriage, Haven hopes an illustrated Bedtime Stories can be the lucrative posthumous father-daughter collaboration she desperately needs to jump-start her art career. However, everyone in the nearby vacation town wants a piece of the manuscript: her father's obsessive literary salon members, the Ink Drinkers; her mysterious yet charming neighbor, who has a tendency toward three a.m. bonfires; a young barista with a literary forgery business; and of course, whoever keeps trying to break into her house. But when a monstrous creature appears under Haven's bed right as grisly deaths are reported in the nearby woods, she must race to uncover dark, otherworldly family secretsâ??completely rewriting everything she ever knew about herself in the No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Unfortunately there is more that bothered me about the book. There were a lot of inconsistencies and discrepancies. None of the characters were well fleshed out. The protagonist made the most idiotic decisions. I hade many of the twists figured out well before they were revealed.
BUT, I still found it hard to put down. Which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 2. I was really interested in the overall idea of the story. The ending felt surely like it was preparing for a sequel. Which, honestly, I'd read if for nothing else to find out what other weird situations the characters end up in and the revelations that come with a sequel. ( )