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I didn't know what I was getting into with this book. It starts off relatively normal, and then goes way off the deep end and continues to get more and more crazy as it goes on. Unhinged is an understatement! I listened to the audiobook, and it was well read. Definitely entertaining and fast paced. If you're scared of dolls or puppets, steer clear. If you like campy horror stuff, this is a fun read. 

I liked but didn't love this memoir. Filled with short vignettes in chronological order, I felt like it never got too deep. I liked the conversational, casual, and straightforward way Kathleen told her story, but I dunno it felt a little surface level. 

A great book for true crime junkies, a look inside the criminal justice system focused on six wrongfully convicted prisoners by a producer from dateline. The audiobook is well read by the author! 

I really liked this book, it's introspective and dreamy, with a cast of art school students vividly painted. I didn't get a great sense of the narrator, but she seemed a bit unsure of who she was too, and her love for the rest of them was in ever page. I wouldn't call this a horror story, but there were some really scary scenes and imagery, and a through theme of being haunted. Also a great cover! 

This is an unhinged story! A train wreck in slow motion, it's addictive and wonderful. 

This book is strange and entrancing, set in Florida, in a post-pandemic world that isn't too far off from reality. It starts out with odd stories about Florida life and little by little the stories get more and more odd, until eventually the narrator and her sister end up in another dimension with their long lost half-sisters and their mother is the leader of a cult. It got real weird. 

I wanted to like this more. It's interesting and not boring but I think I just didn't really get it. 

Definitely the best memoir I've listened to in a while. I loved this raw, intense, sometimes brutal, "straight no chaser" story of Lidia's life. The narrator of the audiobook was excellent, bringing a lot of passion in her reading. I am going to go down a Lidia rabbit hole and read all her books. 

I absolutely loved this book. It's dark, upsetting, and I couldn't put it down. It's not exactly a mystery, but has an anxiety-filled, fast pace that makes it feel a bit like one. Clove is living a lovely normal life built on lies, and a letter she receives sends her into an anxiety spiral, convinced her life is about to explode. She's reliving (mostly) traumatic memories that she has avoided for years as her current life marches onward unaware of all Clove is hiding, and it's a wild ride being in Clove's head. The way the past and present collide is so satisfying and the ending is perfect. Maybe my fave book I've read this year!

This is a fun and bloody continuation of this series!