The Laws of the Skies

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For a bunch of SIX (6) y/o, they were incredibly advanced..in more ways than one. There was lots of philosophical inner monologue for one. I don't remember being six, but I sure as hell know I wasn't thinking about the meaning of life and friendships at that age. There was also this weird three-way relationship between this trio where they were 'in love' with each other. What does a six year old know about romantic love? Having a crush is one thing, but to this extent? Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why… It’s 1961, and Mary Alice (Tink) Parker lives with her parents in a Vancouver suburb where many fathers are traumatized veterans of the Second World War and almost all the mothers are housewives. They believe they’ve earned secure and prosperous lives after the sacrifices they made during the war. But under the conformist veneer seethe conflicts and secrets that make the serenity of Grouse Valley precarious.

Through sheer ambition and force of will, Lin has rebranded her entire existence. She's shrugged off her past to fully embrace a new identity: Linfluencer, the high-end influencer whose Outfits Of The Day are obsessively followed by every budding fashionista with a blossoming social media addiction.At the end of the day, though, it's probably more my problem, not the book's. I love lit that explores dark places, but this was too camp (ha!) for me. Too gratuitous, too unearned. It probably means I'm not into the genre, rather than that the author didn't succeed at his goal.

it shifts into second person a few more times with one very special occurrence towards the end which shows some stellar authorial decision-making, and made me love the book so so much. although, i knew it was love as soon as i read the story that gives the novel its name. a book that has creepy children AND horrible birds? this is my kind of horror.

arguably unjustified, but his upbringing suggests an explanation. 3. Student Years: “Marking Out the Path to Be Taken”

Twelve students and three chaperones enter the woods for a camping trip and none of them come out alive. That's not a spoiler, that is in the book synopsis. So I knew this wasn't going to be all rainbows and lollipops but this guy took it so far deeper and darker than I was expecting. It was nearly relentless. Bonnier’s fast-paced thriller of a heist gone wrong, based on a daring real-life crime, promises to be the perfect read for fans of Ocean’s Eleven or The Italian Job, featuring a charming ensemble cast who soon learn that even the best-laid plans can go awry. If it sounds a bit more like we’re describing a movie than a book, that’s because The Helicopter Heist is also soon to be a Netflix film starring Jake Gyllenhaal. I loved everything about The Laws of the Skies. It's a survival horror novella about a class of children who go camping, and it's bleak in the exact way I wanted. It's no secret and therefore no spoiler that this is a splatter story. Young children are dying and horribly - and all I can say is that it was pretty great. *lol* From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."

The Agents takes place at some point in the distant future where humanity, due to economic and climate collapse, now live and die where they work. Designated as ‘‘agents,’’ they never leave the buildings or floors they occupy, instead working ‘‘in front of machines from another century that purr like pets’’ and only exiting their cubicles during designated break times. When they’re not staring at their computers or lining up for a cup of coffee, the agents discuss tactics with the other members of their guild (those not part of a guild never last long). Mainly told in second person (omniscient), Courtois introduces us to Solveig, Theodore, Laszlo, and Clara, who form one of the smaller guilds on the 122 nd floor of Tower 35S. Using their smarts, they have avoided confrontation with the larger guilds. But when the company allows a guild to improve its power-base by pooling ‘‘the productivity potential of its members’’ provided they occupy adjacent cubicles, the intense fight for real-estate means that Solveig, Theodore, Laszlo, and Clara are going to have to do something radical if they are to survive another day in the office. Doctor John Dee and his secret apprentice, Margaretta, using his brilliant mind and her strange abilities, embark on a perilous journey to solve this brutal murder. Before their work can really begin, another body is found. overall, the death scenes are dispassionate in tone. after the first one, which is splattery and vivid and goes on for an almost comically long time, the writing around the deaths grows cooler, more casual. the novel broadens into a more psychological-anthropological-cerebral kind of take than i expected, and there’s an effective displacement technique that comes from shifting perspectives—the story will sometimes switch POVs mid-paragraph, sometimes several times, which is less confusing than it sounds, and it gives this marvelous dreamlike nightmarish quality to the experience. it becomes more about tension and atmosphere than about its body count. We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we? If you know me you know I'm always up for the creepy/evil child trope in books or film. This book took that trope to a whole different level with little Enzo. He's like an aggressively rabid dog. You feel deeply for it, you wish you could help it or even comfort it somehow, but you also want it to stay very far away from you.