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Breathe In, Bleed Out
by Brian McAuley
“Not every experience needs to be captured. It’s important to remember that your first love was the sound itself, not a secondhand recording.”
Summerween has never been so good. Haunted by her finance’s death on a harrowing wilderness trip, Hannah shelters herself away from everyone and everything she knows, depending on pills to dull her pain. When her friend group goes on a wilderness retreat run by a guru, mysterious and slightly cult-like activities make her question whether she’s sane or gone crazy from trauma. Will Hannah confront her demons and her past, or will it and the strange events at the camp catch up to her?
“What if I’m so shaken up that I can’t be unshaken? You’re a human being, Hannah. Not a martini.”
If you are a horror fan, especially a slasher fan like me, especially if Scream is your favourite scary movie like mine, you need to read this book.
It’s intellectual yet funny; dripping with gore and spiritualism.
“Two hundred dollars for an oversized doily? That’s not spiritualism. That’s capitalism.”
The storyline is to die for. Sorry, I had to. And I had no idea who or what was at the end of the book, or even the next chapter. It kept me on my toes the whole time.
What an amazingly fun read. Unputdownable. Five stars.
“I think the only question that matters is what you believe. Because if it’s real to you, then it’s just fucking real, right?”
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.