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Right now I'm reading Josh Malerman's Pearl and I'm absolutely gobsmacked by its deceptive design. This is my third Malerman book and I have yet to read a book by him that doesn't blow my mind. I almost didn't pick up Pearl because for some asinine reason I thought it was too slight of a concept to rock my world, but I was wrong. I'm admitting this, in public, because I feel like my shame should be addressed. Here's a book about a telepathic pig. How weird is that? What could possibly be so earth-shattering with that simplistic premise? But this is Malerman's Cujo. It's the simplicity of the premise that allows Malerman to...[read on]About Ghost Eaters, from the publisher:
From the acclaimed author of The Remaking and Whisper Down the Lane, this terrifying supernaturalVisit Clay McLeod Chapman's website.page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown.
Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin’s world falls apart.
Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping “séance.” But the drug has unfathomable side effects—and once you take it, you can never go back.
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