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Undercover by Tamsyn Muir
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it was amazing
bookshelves: favorites, adult, horror, own-voices, queer, sapphic, short-stories, thriller-mystery, fantasy, spooooky, good-lord-the-writing
Read 2 times. Last read February 12, 2023 to February 13, 2023.

5 bloody stars
"It's a hellish world."
Tamsyn Muir's niche genre is writing fucked up zombie lesbians and she excels at it. This was very dark and had a lot of gore and bloodshed (can it be a Tamsyn Muir book without bones and gore?), and makes the other stories in this collection feel pretty tame. I found The Six Deaths of the Saint pretty dark, but Undercover is multiple leagues ahead.

I love how Muir's books are always a huge puzzle waiting to be solved. This one has its fair share of twists but being a veteran reader of her Locked Tomb books I was able to figure it out pretty early on. despite that, it was fun to spot the clues and gaslight myself 😂😂.

Definitely my favorite along with Alix E. Harrow's short story. Can never go wrong with either of these authors.
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Reading Progress

October 25, 2022 – Shelved as: to-read
October 25, 2022 – Shelved
November 28, 2022 – Started Reading
November 28, 2022 –
page 9
15.25% "Tamsyn muir does love bones a lot"
November 29, 2022 –
page 37
62.71% "giving Mr Rochester a run for his money"
November 30, 2022 –
89.0% "I KNEW IT I FUCKING KNEW IT"
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: favorites
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: adult
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: horror
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: own-voices
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: queer
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: sapphic
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: short-stories
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: thriller-mystery
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: fantasy
November 30, 2022 – Shelved as: spooooky
November 30, 2022 – Finished Reading
February 12, 2023 – Started Reading
February 12, 2023 –
60.0% "Listening to the audio this time"
February 13, 2023 –
100.0% "Best part about rereading Muir's books is how you spot so many clues that you overlooked the first time. For example, the first line of this story is a dead giveaway"
February 13, 2023 – Finished Reading
March 7, 2024 – Shelved as: good-lord-the-writing

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message 1: by CC (new) - rated it 4 stars

CC I just finished this. Much bloodier than the Alix E. Harrow one but I loved it too. Hope you like it!


urwa CC wrote: "I just finished this. Much bloodier than the Alix E. Harrow one but I loved it too. Hope you like it!"

i'm at the part where the girl ate the lizard...so good times


message 3: by CC (new) - rated it 4 stars

CC The perk of being a veteran reader! The twist was definitely a big surprise on my end, though in hindsight I can see the hints (like the name and hand and stuff). Now I know for future reference :)


urwa CC wrote: "The perk of being a veteran reader! The twist was definitely a big surprise on my end, though in hindsight I can see the hints (like the name and hand and stuff). Now I know for future reference :)"

yeah it's really cool to see the scattered clues left behind


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