Opening Lines: There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother's house. Oversimplified plot: When Sam visits her mother in her old childhood house, something is off and has her mother acting not like herself. This was not my cup of tea and I was a bit bored for a majority of the book. We're going back and forth in time from 4 POVs and it just feels like so much is going on but nothing is actually happening. Review: This novel is basically mild magical realism meets family drama with sparse sprinkling of horror.

Opening Lines: My earliest memories in the house on Fowler Island are of the girls - Henrietta and Beatrice - their carnivorous joy echoing off the walls of Quarry Hollow. Oversimplified plot: The Volt sisters are forced to return to the island where they grew up to face something from their family history. Title: The Insatiable Volt Sisters by Rachel Eve Moulton This was like 40% of the book! Yeesh, this was tough to get through. But it was so hard to get past the awful 'romance' throughout which is just pure fantasy wish fulfillment - the ugly guy falls head over heels with a pretty lady who has a very attractive but asshole boyfriend and eventually the ugly guy wins her over. Review: This novel had the potential to be a very fun, turn-your-brain-off kind of read with violence and humor and monsters. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window. Opening Lines: On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream.

Oversimplified plot: Monsters are real and there are agencies to deal with them. Title: Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia

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