Auteur: Looneybooks79
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Hemelrijk
Korte inhoud: (dutch review, short english review below) In Hemelrijk vertelt Chris de Stoop het onthutsende verhaal van een zorgcentrum dat, na het bezoek van een sinterklaas, catastrofaal door coronabesmettingen getroffen wordt. In het hart van de Kempen, op de hei, breekt een helse tijd aan wanneer een zorgcentrum na het bezoek van de goede sint getroffen…
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Nana
Blurb: (according to Amazon) Nana: A term of endearment used in some countries for one’s Grandma. Some say the title is derived from the Italian word for Grandmother, Nonna. Another theory is that it stems from the word Nanny, i.e., someone who takes care of children.Meet Olly’s nana, Ivy. It takes more than clean dentures,…
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Ancient Blood Book 1: Ancient
Blurb: (according to the author’s website) The most ancient of beings who has roamed the earth for countless centuries is ready to take to his slumber, to isolate himself and retreat from society. His nest begged him not to go, but he knew it was time.Fate stepped in, however, because before he could reach his…
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Price Manor: The House that burns
Blurb: (according to Amazon) In the first installment of the Price Manor series from the Deadline Horror Collective, Mike Salt conjures a grisly tale of love, loss and buildings that shouldn’t be… As a wildfire rips through Steelhead, a small group flees the blaze – only to discover a mansion with dark walls in the…
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Elken
Blurb: (according to Amazon) Called out to the unexplored Sorrow Helm forests in the early 1970s, elderly cartographer Wilbur Roman soon finds that the woods are near-impossible to map; and that he’s very, very far from alone out here. Trails of bones and antlers, mysterious robed figures, and strangely-behaving creatures all lead him to the…
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Eyes of Sleeping Children
Blurb (back cover of novel): An ecological disaster. A missing child. A man who would kill for his family. Louis Lockhart and family take shelter from the worst storm to ever hit Kansas – The Beast of Black Sunday. Jesse pleads with his father to not let the Sandman get him. That night, Jesse vanishes…
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Jurassic Park and The Lost World
My thoughts: A little over 26 years ago (feels like 65.000.000 years) I read Jurassic Park for the very first time! And I remember loving it! I was (sorry am!) a huge fan of the Jurassic Park movie franchise (okay, the third one was full of mistakes and not the best but I love it…
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Address Book
Synopsis (according to publisher’s website): Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett’s cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height…
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Since I laid my burden down
Blurb (from website publisher): A riotous, hilarious, and heart-breaking cult novel about growing up black, queer, and punk. When DeShawn hears news of his uncle’s death, his riotous big-city life in San Francisco is abruptly put on hold while he travels back to his Alabama hometown for the funeral. While there, he’s hit by flashbacks…
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Mary
Korte inhoud (volgens website uitgeverij): Mary Shelley verblijft op haar veertiende bij een familie in Schotland, waar een innige vriendschap ontstaat met Isabella Baxter. Samen dwalen ze in het gebied dat al eeuwen verhalen herbergt over monsters en geesten, en op een dag stuiten ze diep in het bos op een man die geen man…
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