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Thirteens (Thirteens, #1)
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This book has cemented Kate Alice Marshall as one of my favourite authors.
It wasn’t perfect (a smidge chaotic just like Rules for Vanishing ) but DAMN was this entertaining and utterly engaging—I didn’t want to set The Thirteens down. I was so invested in the lore of Eleanor, Pip, and Otto’s world: a world that just so happens to overlap with the macabre of Rules for Vanishing, which I also very much enjoyed. The monsters are unconventional and the prose is trademark Kate Alice Marshall vivid; neither fall into cliché. Another thing she does so well is write friendships—the fierce loyalty, the imperfect nuances, the strength and love.
Not to mention, all the RFV easter eggs were *chef’s kiss* Easter eggs are my favourite things EVER, and this book really rewarded readers who’ve read the earlier (companion-ish) novel.
Marshall is just so good at getting under my skin! Kudos to you, ma’am!
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bookshelves: horror, 2020, childrens-and-middle-grade, mystery-crime, poc-side-character, spoopy-szn-2020, friendship, coverlust, books-i-loved, fave-author, totally-underrated
Oct 20, 2020
bookshelves: horror, 2020, childrens-and-middle-grade, mystery-crime, poc-side-character, spoopy-szn-2020, friendship, coverlust, books-i-loved, fave-author, totally-underrated
There are things in the world that shouldn’t be, she would say. Things out of place. Little pieces of other worlds that slipped in, like a piece of gravel in your shoe. Some of them are kind, but most of them are dangerous. Be careful, Elle, and stay away from Eden Eld.
This book has cemented Kate Alice Marshall as one of my favourite authors.
It wasn’t perfect (a smidge chaotic just like Rules for Vanishing ) but DAMN was this entertaining and utterly engaging—I didn’t want to set The Thirteens down. I was so invested in the lore of Eleanor, Pip, and Otto’s world: a world that just so happens to overlap with the macabre of Rules for Vanishing, which I also very much enjoyed. The monsters are unconventional and the prose is trademark Kate Alice Marshall vivid; neither fall into cliché. Another thing she does so well is write friendships—the fierce loyalty, the imperfect nuances, the strength and love.
Not to mention, all the RFV easter eggs were *chef’s kiss* Easter eggs are my favourite things EVER, and this book really rewarded readers who’ve read the earlier (companion-ish) novel.
Marshall is just so good at getting under my skin! Kudos to you, ma’am!
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Reading Progress
October 15, 2020
– Shelved
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
horror
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
2020
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
childrens-and-middle-grade
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
mystery-crime
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
poc-side-character
October 15, 2020
– Shelved as:
spoopy-szn-2020
October 18, 2020
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Started Reading
October 18, 2020
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15.0%
"“What do I owe you?” she asked.
“Nothing. My mom gives me a ton of allowance to make up for the fact that she has the maternal instincts of a sea slug,” Pip said
HAHAHHAHA"
“Nothing. My mom gives me a ton of allowance to make up for the fact that she has the maternal instincts of a sea slug,” Pip said
HAHAHHAHA"
October 18, 2020
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friendship
October 18, 2020
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43.0%
"Otto had skipped past the headline, but it was obvious that the article was about scary stories from different places. The first one on the page was about someplace called Briar Glen in Massachusetts, and the last one just had the header and a couple sentences about a town in Florida, but the one in the middle was for Eden Eld.
RULES FOR VANISHING EASTER EGG I'M SHOOOOK (the briar glen scary story!!)"
RULES FOR VANISHING EASTER EGG I'M SHOOOOK (the briar glen scary story!!)"
October 19, 2020
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46.0%
"ashford.
ashford house.
ANDY ASHFORD.
ANDREW ASHFORD AKA ASHFORD FILES AKA DR. ASHFORD FROM RULES FOR VANISHING
i absolutely cannot wait to see how he links these two stories"
ashford house.
ANDY ASHFORD.
ANDREW ASHFORD AKA ASHFORD FILES AKA DR. ASHFORD FROM RULES FOR VANISHING
i absolutely cannot wait to see how he links these two stories"
October 19, 2020
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64.0%
"Eleanor reached up and touched the window wonderingly. The image rippled and changed. The ripples steadied into a lush, misty forest—not the one outside, but one far older and far wilder. Something huge and shadowy moved among the trees, a long way off. It stood as tall as the trees themselves, and on its head were huge, branching antlers. It turned toward them, and—
ANOTHER RULES FOR VANISHING EASTER EGG!"
ANOTHER RULES FOR VANISHING EASTER EGG!"
October 19, 2020
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76.0%
"theory: mr. january's work in eden eld (i.e., in this book) is the same as what his sisters are trying to accomplish........ in briar glen (rules for vanishing) and bitter rock (our last echoes)"
October 19, 2020
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Finished Reading
October 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
coverlust
October 20, 2020
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books-i-loved
October 21, 2020
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fave-author
October 22, 2020
– Shelved as:
totally-underrated
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YEEESSSSSSS! omg! rachel it made me so happy when i saw that both kam books were on your favourite-author shelf 😭❤️ i haven't met many people who know of her, and i myself only just read rules for vanishing (my first kam book) a few days ago. i'm obsessed with her world-building and writing style oh my GOODNESS
if you do a reread i am so keeping an eye out for updates & (re)living vicariously through you!
jenny✨ wrote: "i haven't met many people who know of her"
she's so underrated it's tragic 😭 i know barely anyone who has read her books but her prose & world-building is just so breath-taking. i hope she makes keep writing this niche brand of weird paranormal/horror because i will devour anything she writes
if you read i am still alive, you have to let me know! it's so different to this. a straight-up survival story, instead of horror but it's so gripping. and her character work, the way she writes about loneliness and desperation is *chef's kiss*
i don't know if i can actually justify a reread so soon when i have so much to read before the end of the year,, but i'm definitely going to reread them both next year now (before our last echoes, maybe??)...... but you almost convinced me haha
jenny✨ wrote: "i haven't met many people who know of her"
she's so underrated it's tragic 😭 i know barely anyone who has r..."
so SO underrated omg. she's incredible and i'm so grateful to have bumped into you on goodreads to hype up kam together!! i COMPLETELY agree re: continuing to write niche paranormal/horror—it's perfection 😭
i'm definitely going to read i am still alive and i will let you know!! i'm especially intrigued since it's set in canada (albeit the "remote canadian wilderness") and i'm from vancouver/british columbia :)