Monday, September 17, 2018

The "Jewelry" Recap

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If you missed Day 1 of our #LadiesofHorrorFiction Instagram challenge recaps, be sure to check it out. We kicked off the challenge with the “Lady Stack” prompt.  You can find day 2 “Haunted” by clicking here.

There were a lot of different books that came up for day three’s prompt of “Jewelry”.  Jewelry plays into a lot of horror stories. Whether it be a simple black velvet ribbon, a cursed gem, or an antique necklace or ring with a ghost attached, its presence is undeniable.

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Frankie (booksandbloodletting) posted Anne Rice’s ‘Blackwood Farm’, which is book 9 in her well-known Vampire Chronicles series.

“Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.”

Click here to check out Blackwood Farm on Goodreads.

Mindi (Gowsy33) showed off ‘Grimly Jane’, a book from Elle Alexander. (Gorgeous cover!) She received a sweet necklace as a gift along with the book.

“Jane Worthington is miserable indeed. Losing her parents at the tender age of eight, she is sent to live at the dreadful orphanage, The Rudorf Home For Foundlings, where she is forced to bed without supper, made to clean with little rest and, when she’s very naughty, locked away in the red room. One day, her fortune changes when she discovers a door to another world through which she escapes and starts down a journey that will grant her the chance for wicked revenge.”

Click here to check out Grimly Jane on Goodreads.

Christy Aldridge (christy_aldridge) ‘s recommendation wasn’t exactly about jewelry, but she made a very good point about inheritance and greedy people.

“It wasn’t that she didn’t love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.

So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.

Just for a little while.

But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed….

‘Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive….”

Click here to check out Flowers in the Attic on Goodreads.

Did I mention we saw a lot of Anne Rice for this day?

Shriekingviolets428 posted about Interview with a Vampire the book that started it all for generations of people who adored vampires before anyone ever thought to make them sparkle.

“This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even “settle down” for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia’s struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.”

Click here to check out Interview with a Vampire on Goodreads. 

and finally..

Ashley (bookishmommy) showed us Karin Slaughter’s ‘Pretty Girls’. (Gotta love finding a good deal on a book you’ve heard lots of good things about!) Don’t know if the locket has anything to do with it, but I love the cover.

“Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.

The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.”

Click here to check out Pretty Girls now on Goodreads.


 

What is YOUR favorite book with jewelry featured in it? Be sure to check back next week for books featuring the “grave“!

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