In summation: Anything that was scary about this book was made lame by the vague writing. It’s not a big deal, but it’s such an easy edit! Also, if you want the stories to be set in the UK, that’s fine! They are so vaguely written that she could easily set them in the US, the UK, Slovakia, Indonesia, New Zealand- wherever. Also, it’s set in the US but she keeps calling flashlights torches. Ummm… No one in their right mind would build a cabin that way. Presumably a national park or at the very least a state park based on context, but we don’t know! In this cabin, there’s no running water, just a pump (that’s fine!), but the bathtub is upstairs. Some other issues I had: Her uncle is friendly with the city council so he got to build a cabin in the middle of a park just for fun. And it’s oils-paints that take literal weeks to dry. She’s got a week to put together a collection of oils for this major show and hasn’t started anything. In Dead Lake, Sam visits her uncle’s cabin to work on paintings for an upcoming art show. Like the last Darcy Coates book I read, this book lacked so much detail and overlooked so many small errors.

I mean, I love campfire stories, so this could be good!Īnd in the end, this is pretty much a campfire story and shouldn’t have gone further than that. I’ve had this book on my Kindle for years and finally dove in after seeing this advertised as the perfect book to read by the campfire at a bookstore. I’m not sure how I fell into the trap of reading another Darcy Coates book, but much like The Carrow Haunt which I read in 2020, I was simultaneously engaged and irritated. What he hopes is the end of that encounter, of course, is just the beginning. So he visits a gay bath house one evening and barely escapes. I don’t want to give you too much up front, but here are the basics, Oliver lives with his partner, a successful doctor, in D.C. You know I love a good domestic thriller, and oooh was this a twisty one! I haven’t done six books in a month in a long time, but ’tis the season! August is always my best reading month of the year.

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