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Good evening, Children of the Night.

Quite some time ago, I mentioned to you that I had started Lorne Bukas' broken monsters.

We've heard from her here at Tales to Terrify back in episode 225.

When I saw her book featured Owen Goodreads Choice Awards Best Horror 2017 shortlist,

I put that to the front of my reading list, and that took me a while to get to,

and then much longer than I would have liked, to get finished with it.

I found it to be an engaging read, but had a harder time finding the time to actually get through it.

The book does open with a promise of something strange to come, but the first third of the book

plays out like rather well-written, but standard detective looks for murderer, which I feel

as intentional as the weirdness of the story is dialed up from the beginning to the climax of

the story.

The three things that I liked about the book.

First, the writing is multidimensional.

Some books have a singular voice that has one track or one speed,

and that occasionally gets monotonous.

Diversity in the narrative voice was done well without getting frenetic.

Secondly, the book set in present day either omit or do a rather, shall I say, caricature of how modern people communicate through the internet or social media.

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