The Farmhouse - Chelsea Conradt
Snøengler - Geir Tangen
The Creeper - A.M. Shine
Going Home in the Dark - Dean Koontz
Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen
Godt nytt år. 🎉 👿
Jeg går skammens vei inn i 2026, siden jeg ikke klarte hundre bøker i fjor av helsemessige årsaker. Det ble bare 60 bøker. Det er første gang jeg har feilet å lese hundre bøker eller mer siden 2016, så det er en god stund siden. Så prøver det samme igjen i år.
Noen av disse bøkene så dere kanskje på denne siden i løpet av fjoråret. Fleste av dem er bøker jeg ville lese i fjor, men som det ikke ble noe av, typisk. Så prøver igjen nå i januar.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Denne thrilleren gikk mange ganger på Tv før i tiden med Julia Roberts. Har sett filmen en del ganger selv. Er på ingen måte fan av Julia Roberts. Syns hun er litt slitsom i lengden, men de lager ikke thrillerfilmer som før i tiden. Da de var mer intense. Nå er ofte thrillere ganske tungtrødde. Så er spent på hvordan boka er.
(Fra Goodreads):
When Emily Hauk's mother dies, it's time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home.
They should have asked why the farm was for sale.
Three years ago a teenage girl went missing from the farm. Soon afterward, the girl's mother mysteriously died. The deeper Emily digs the more stories she uncovers of women connected to her new home who've met their own dark ends.
With each passing day Emily's sanctuary slips further away. The barn seems to move throughout her property as though chasing her. Her mother's favorite music drifts across the cornfield. She swears she saw blood in one of the farmhand's trucks. And the screams that wake her are not fox howls, no matter how many times her husband says they are. If she wants to claim this place as her own she'll have to find out the truth before whatever watches from the cornfield takes her, too.
Snøengler: Tangens nyeste bok som jeg egentlig skulle lese i fjor, men som det ikke ble noe av. Har lest og likt de fleste bøkene hans, og håper denne er like dyster.
(Fra Bokelskere):
Det er januar og kuldebølge i Haugesund. En iskald morgen blir en kvinne funnet frosset i hjel ved Haraldsstøtta, Norges Riksmonument. Hun er kledd naken, dekket av rim og plassert i snøen som om hun har lagd en engel. Kvinnen viser seg å være datteren til en av Norges rikeste og mektigste menn; skipsrederen Fritz Evensen. På funnstedet finner etterforskerne flere spor som peker mot menn som hater kvinner. Et av dem er en plastengel med påskriften St. Elliot – et viktig symbol for incel-miljøet. Så dukker en ny død kvinne opp på akkurat samme måte. Denne gangen i den lille bygda Vikedal, og det er ei 16 år gammel jente.
De grusomme drapene ryster Gabriel Fjell og resten av politikammeret i Haugesund. Fra Oslo får de hjelp fra Kripos-etterforsker Aida Ibrahim, men snart begynner trusselen å peke i retning av at drapsmannen bare så vidt har begynt på sin vendetta. Ingen vet hvem som blir neste offer, og denne gangen kan det ramme Gabriel hardere enn noen gang før.
The Creeper: Leste en bok av ham tidligere som het The Watchers. Elsket boka, men hatet filmatiseringen. Likte hans fortellerstemme ganske godt som var veldig kryptisk. Håper denne er like kryptisk.
(Fra Goodreads):
Superstitions only survive if people believe in them...
Renowned
academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish
village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be
chosen—until they arrive...
The village is isolated and
forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no
friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The
villagers lock down their homes at sundown. A nameless fear stalks the
streets...
Nobody will talk—nobody except one little girl. Her
story strikes dread into the hearts of the newcomers. Three times you
see him. Each night he comes closer...
That night, Ben and Chloe
see a sinister figure watching them. He is the Creeper. He is the
nameless fear in the night. Stories keep him alive. And nothing will
keep him away...
The Creeper is a masterful tale of horror and suspense, by one of Ireland's most talented emerging authors.
Going Home in the Dark: Kul tittel og kult cover, også er det jo Koontz. Boka ble utgitt i fjor og var tidlig ute med å skaffe meg den, også, men som vanlig er jeg en somlekopp, så håper jeg får lest den nå i januar.
(Fra Goodreads):
When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As
kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable
friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty
dreams―and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a
coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they
remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always
awoke…didn’t they?
After two decades, not a lot has changed in
Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca,
Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and
weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks
deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to
save him.
For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to
remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is
what it seems. For Maple Grove, it’s a chance to have the “four amigos,”
as they once called themselves, back in its grasp.
Sacrificial Animals: Nok en bok jeg ikke har hørt noe om fra før, så er spent på hvordan det blir. Noen ganger må man våge å ta sjanser, og jeg får jo ikke nok av horror ...
(Fra Goodreads):
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being
adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in
Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores
an ancient Chinese mythology.
The last thing Nick Morrow expected
to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he
left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there,
including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so
large in memory, forever.
But neither Nick nor his brother
Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can
ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed
reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each
other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the
time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into
romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to
suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly
even ancient, motivations.
Punctuated by scenes from Nick’s
adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy
presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever,
Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and
the total collapse of a family in its wake.
Som vanlig kommer jeg å smette inn andre bøker underveis. Så får man se hvilke av bøkene jeg rekker å lese i løpet av januar. Jeg er og blir en treg leser.👿
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