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Mary
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Nat Cassidy's highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
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Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can't look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown, hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. Instead, visions of terrifying, mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity and she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases. Mary discovers that these experiences are echoes of an infamous serial killer. Then the killings begin again. Mary's definitely going to find herself.
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I could not put this book down!!! Such a good story and I also loved the authors note in the beginning and end - it’s meant to be a horror book so please keep that in mind; i did think there were unnecessary filler moments at some points in the book but it’s totally worth the read regardless.
Okay LOVED THIS. Picked up this book expecting to read it over a couple weeks, as it's 402 pages, but it took me two days (if you don't count the first two chapters). The first two chapters had trouble commiting. Felt like just couldn't focus on the story. The next day I tried again and could barely put it down to cook or sleep! Just descriptive enough, horror but not too gross, a few twists could sort of see coming but the depth of the twists we...read more
This book quickly became one of my favorites. Loved the visuals and the whole story had me unable to guess what was happening next. This is such a unique horror with an awesome ending.
Mary is about a sincerely weird middle aged woman with identity issues who returns to her verbally abusive aunt’s home in hopes of reliving her past and finding out who she is. Unfortunately, Mary is tied to the town in ways she never expected and is haunted not just by her past, but by actual malevolent spirits only she can see.
This one is a gory, weird, humorous, and empowering novel about how society views middle aged woman mixed with a vio...read more
hard to believe a man wrote this. Such an amazing use of horror to examine a very female experience
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