There was a lot of jumping not just between timelines but also within the narrative of each section. The timeline in Fountain Dead shifted back and forth between 1988 and the 1860s.

Unfortunately, the format of Fountain Dead didn't work for me. Everything is connected-from the bricks in the walls to the hearts beating in their chests, all the secrets of Fountain Dead are finally unearthed.įountain Dead was one of my selections for the Ladies of Horror Fiction readathon. As romantic entanglements intensify, the paranormal activity escalates. Of course, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house's dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them-the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past. Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. It’s disturbing and well written and one of those books you really just need to read for yourself. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read (which is the best part about it.) Geek Love is a character driven book and all of the characters are horrible and fascinating. I’ve decided this book is impossible to review. albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset.Īs the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan. Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. Here are some quick thoughts on a few books I've read recently.

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