I’m linking their site because I hope they don’t mind I borrowed their picture to illustrate this post. This is a really nice coonhound from Grand River Redbones. I had to specifically stop myself at first and visualize a correctly structured redbone coonhound every time I saw his name. If a dog’s roached back is extreme enough to remind you at all of a bongo’s back, that would be a dire fault with serious fitness consequences. This is not the way a dog’s back should look. In The Twisted Ones, Bongo is a redbone coonhound, and his name bothered me a bit because I know what color Bongo antelope are, but I also know what shape they are, and I kept feeling like a dog named Bongo might have a terribly roached back. When Ursula Vernon refers to her Hound on Twitter, I guess it’s a literal hound that is, a scenthound and not “hound” being used as a generic term for “dog.” She sure knows hounds, and she brings this one to life. I don’t know why I didn’t expect the dog to be this important because I did see a review that assured me the dog didn’t die, but I thought the dog would be a minor character. Plucky Female Protagonist or anything like that. The dark fantasy / horror aspects - and Mouse sounds just right for aĬontemporary protagonist, but she is definitely not a cookie-cutter Modernday This is a contemporary setting – apart from On the second page she describes her job this way: “I turn decent books into decently readable books and hopeless books into hopeless books with better grammar.” I did laugh, yes. I didn’t expect a first-person narrative, but that’s what this story offers, and with a distinctive, engaging voice, too. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. I didn’t actually read this book in time for Halloween,īut I think I might have ordered it on Halloween, so that counts, right? I was in the mood for horrorīecause hey, Halloween. To write a horror story I could stand to read. I noticed The Twisted Ones, I was interested and also ready to trust her I’ve really enjoyed all of her books or stories that I’ve read so far, so when

Hers on my TBR pile and a vague notion she’s got a lot of others out there. Okay, so, it’s not like I’ve read through theĮntire backlist available for T Kingfisher / Ursula Vernon.

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