Laura E. HallYou, me, anemone 🦀
Making friends at the coastal tide pools, enjoying the ocean breeze, reading books, finding hag stones* that magically reveal portals to other worlds/let you see through a fairy’s disguise
(*not pictured)
On-brand beach reads 🗝️🔓📖
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These have both been fun books.
#TheEscapeRoom is more of a thriller, and not actually about an escape room per se—some terrible Wall Street people are *told* they’re going into a game, but it’s actually a 2019 Escape Room movie-style revenge trap in an elevator (though no gore/torture), and the book’s unfolding plot explores why they deserve to be in there. Quick-paced and easy to read, though no puzzles
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I’m still reading #TheSkeletonKey but I suspect a lot of my friends will enjoy this one.
The premise is: what if Masquerade armchair treasure hunt fever had been so intense that it continued for decades, with people going to frighteningly obsessive lengths to find answers?
Fun read so far, and I’m excited to see where it goes with the story
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Chuck Jordan@lauraehall Thanks for the recommendation! It went from "I've never heard of that" to "bought on Kindle" in under 30 seconds.
@SasquatcherGeneral Nice! Let me know what you think if you read it, I usually am hesitant to recommend anything before I've finished it, but the author seems to get it in a way that I'm enjoying so far
Tasha Sounart 🎮🏰@lauraehall Skeleton Key sounds interesting! Are you on goodreads?
@tashasounart Yes! I mostly use it for keeping track of to-reads but it's https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2157517-laura-e-hall
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)@lauraehall Nice. I just bought Skeleton Key.
Josiah@lauraehall When you mentioned Skeleton Key I incorrectly thought it was The Maze of Games. Have you ever run across that one? I’ve been meaning to give it a go for a while. https://shop.lonesharkgames.com/collections/the-maze-of-games
@powersurf I have! I’ve only ever delved into some of the pages randomly, never attempted a full solve (I believe it was only solved for the first time by a dedicated group a few years ago!) Anyway it’s a fun one