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I hope you're having a great summer! Here are some short reviews that might help you with your summer reading list, enjoy.

To read my full review of Chains please click here (or just take a look at previous post...) Inci: Hello M.! Let me start by congratulating to what I understand is your debut novel, I really enjoyed reading it! Are there any other writing projects you have been involved in and where can we find them? M. Todd: First of all, thank you so much your review of my first and only novel Chains . Your review is dead-on with my own feelings. I am glad you enjoyed the story and found the characters – especially the Kludde/Kledde – engaging. This is my only published project, although I am a lifelong reader, and have enjoyed writing, mostly poetry, my entire life.

Chains is by far one of the most interesting books I have read this year: its structure, its pacing and above all, its strangely compelling antagonist are just a breath of fresh air in often formulaic horror fiction. To be honest I initially had my doubts I would like it, mainly because I've really had it with books who move between two timelines present and past. Having now finished the book, I realize it was very necessary for Chains to do so and in hindsight I'm glad it did, because I ended up enjoying the "past" parts more than the storyline and the characters in present. And to be fair, M. Todd does not follow the trend of alternating the two timelines, but brings in the past in due places as an explanation. But, first things first, let's start from the beginning with the plot. It doesn't matter what you believe. Hell believes in you. Chains is a folk horror book that borrows folkloric elements from Dutch mythology; we follow a Canadian family with Dut...

I have read so few books this week, oh no! It's all because The Living Dead is such a door-stopper and took so much of my time... And I have no thrillers at all this time, what a crying shame. But I still have had two more interesting reads, one non-fiction on black culture and one translated gothic novella, that I review here and hope you enjoy these recommendations aling with the currently nice weather!

I'm so, SO happy to have read Zen Cho's Black Water Sister , it was such a breath of fresh air! If you like funny, emotional ghost stories set in Southeast Asia that are full of action and interesting deities, don't lose time and grab this!