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[darchildre]

I need a new book*, as I have just finished the not-actually-properly-a-horror-novel I was reading** and I have been poking at my want-to-read list on Goodreads and finding nothing that really appeals. After a few minutes of this, I realized that the reason I can't find anything is that I want something that's like Frances Hardinge but also isn't Frances Hardinge because I've already read all the Frances Hardinge and I don't know anyone else, really, who writes books like hers.

It's a problem.








*I am still reading the WWI horror book but it is nonfiction and thus I need something fictional to balance it out.

**The Auctioneer by Joan Samson, which was good but did not turn out to be the kind of horror I thought it was. I had somehow gotten the impression that the devil was in it but alas, all the devils turned out to be metaphorical.

Comments

[skygiants]

The desperate, unfulfillable longing for a new Frances Hardinge book is very real and very distressing! Christelle Dabos' books went halfway towards scratching that itch for me recently but it's still, you know, a halfway scratch.

[frenchroast]

Well, at least it's not just me who desperately wants more Frances Hardinge books.

If I ever find someone who does write like her, I'll let you know.

Mira Grant's "Into the Drowning Deep" has some proper horror-style mermaids. It's in no way the same, but still a good read.