These four I kind of packaged as one book, because there’s about enough to merit one single tome.  Lyga claimed a lot of these were backstory he chose to keep out of main books.  And for some of the stories — Career Day, Neutral Mask — they should have stayed on the cutting room floor.  But Blood Boy gets pretty deep and intriguing, and Lucky Day is simply excellent.  Lyga suggested reading them after I Hunt Killers (I tweeted him to ask!) and I agree. […]

This feels so much like a Dexter clone, I expected him to show an affinity for Cuban sandwiches.  A young teen, whose father was a legendary serial killer, trained him to follow in his footsteps one day.  Only the teen now uses his powers of sociopathy to help track serial killers.  However.  The serial killer might have been sent by his father.  Or maybe his long thought to be dead mother?  Or someone else?  That’s where the mystery elevates itself.

I honestly cannot remember if I read House of Leaves.  I owned it.  I remember paging through it. But if I did, it melted part of my brain.  Danielewski books up like Donnie Darko, over artsy-fartsying his typography in ways that have beardos parsing it like Bible Study.  This is the first of a purported 27 volumes in his epic spanning new series.  But this one is actually kind of accessible.  I dug it, and I’m down to see what he does with the future sets. […]

I listened to the audio-book version of this, read by the author, and she is a delight. Mostly Jill just tells stories: fluffy, men/love related, “I heard this from a friend” stories. Her Southernness is part of the draw. I love how she says “that’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my INtire life,” and how she calls dumbasses “igmos.” The Sweet Potato Queens thing is hard to describe. A group of Southern ladies like to dress up in giant wigs and sequins, drink, […]