"The Naked Light" by Bridget Collins is a gothic historical fiction set during WWI when two women find themselves in the path of an ancient darkness carved in the shape of a Face. #bookrecommendations #tbrlist #thenakedlight #bridgetcollins #gothic #historicalfiction

Book 74 is "The Haunting Season", a short story collection by #BridgetCollins #ImogenHermesGowar #KiranMillwoodHargrave #AndrewMichaelHurley #JessKidd #ElizabethMacNeal #NatashaPulley #LauraPurcell of "ghostly tales for long winter nights".

Edit: finished 27th December.

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Read my ★★★★ review of Bridget Collins' 2019 debut novel "The Binding," a unique urban fantasy tale about an alt-world where novels are literal memories stolen from human brains by magic, but that I unfortunately liked less than her mindblowing 2020 follow-up, the "1920s fascism meets Hogwarts meets The Game" thriller "The Betrayals." https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5472125601

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Jason Pettus's review of The Binding

4/5: 2023 reads, #34. It's been nine months now since I read the latest novel by admired cross-genre "slipstream" author Bridget Collins, the "1920s fascism meets Hogwarts meets The Game" bizarro emo thriller The Betrayals, which of course I adored (you had me at "1920s fascism bizarro slipstream emo thriller"); but I learned at that point that many of Collins' existing fans actually preferred her debut novel a year previous to that, the Victorian alt-history urban fantasy tale The Binding, so I figured I might as well put that on reserve at the Chicago Public Library as well, and I just got aro...

"Vielleicht hätte ich ihm folgen sollen. Aber irgendwie war es zuerst noch zu früh und dann zu spät, ohne den rechten Augenblick dazwischen."

(Oder so ähnlich mit der Zeichensetzung - ist aus dem Hörbuch zitiert.)

Hat jemand das Buch zum abfotografieren der Stelle?

#DieVerborgenenStimmenDerBücher von #BridgetCollins

Weil ich mit #Sturmhöhe auf meine Mitleserinnen warten muss, hab ich #DieVerborgenenStimmenDerBücher von #BridgetCollins zu hören begonnen & mich prompt auf Twitter bzgl der Thematik gespoilert...
Ich weiß nicht wie oft mir das noch passieren muss, damit ich es lerne :C
Aber jetzt erstmal sehen, was mich in dem Hörbuch noch erwartet =O
Bisher ist es ungewöhnlich, aber spannend.
Bridget Collins - The Binding | ISBN Maschine

The last sentence for ISBN-Nr. 978-0-00-827212-8 (The Binding) on www.isbn-maschine.de aus der ISBN-Maschine.

"When the letter came I was out in the fields, binding up my last sheaf of wheat with hands that were shaking so much I could hardly tie the knot."
first sentence of "The Binding" by #BridgetCollins on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-00-827212-8-first-sentence.php
Bridget Collins - The Binding | ISBN Maschine

The first sentence for ISBN-Nr. 978-0-00-827212-8-first-sentence (The Binding) on www.isbn-maschine.de aus der ISBN-Maschine.

Just finished reading The Binding by Bridget Collins and would definitely recommend it 🙃 Easy to read and it draws you in as you wonder what’s really going on - and in the end impossible to put down 🎉
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