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ARC BOOK REVIEW: A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman

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Publication Date:  January 19, 2021 Publisher:  Del Rey Format:  ebook Pages:   208 Genre:  Magical Realism Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis: The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box.   At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary.   But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake.   The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.   Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house—all the while falling deeper in love?   Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned:   Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s h...

ARC Review: Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman

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Release Date:  April 10, 2018 Publisher:  Del Rey Format:  ebook Pages:  384 pages Genre:   Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis:  Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and—when she lapses into another coma—plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave. And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her—summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and d...