Books

Currently reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

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Read:

The Crows by C.M. Rosens (eldritch horror chick lit... yes, for real) | bingo squares: different continent, creature, LGBTQIA+ (arguably HM), jerk HM

A woman moves into an old house on the outskirts of an unfriendly coastal town, where everyone seems to want her gone. Turns out, the house is sentient, and many of the townsfolk aren't entirely human, including her nearest neighbor, a human/eldritch horror-hybrid.

This literally reads like Bridget Jones' Diary-era chick lit, just with liberal amounts of horror (Lovecraftian and otherwise) thrown in. It's actually a solid mashup, though, and doesn't dwell on awfulness the way the yard-long content warning list makes you think it would. It could use an edit for continuity (and don't think too hard about the world building), but it got me out of out of my post-Fisherman reading slump, so I recommend it as a fluff read if it sounds like your jam. Sidenote: this is marketed on one of the covers as "cosmic horror romance", but while there is a something in the story, it doesn't drive the plot, and isn't what you'd expect from the "romance" label (but nice to see!).