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Aug 01, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, buddy-read, title-number, pgs-600-or-more

This would have been so much better if it was about 200 pages shorter

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Dec 24, 2019 Gina rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror

This book that has been on my shelf for a few years but I always felt I needed to read it in December. Really, it can be read anytime. It is always Christmas in Christmasland, a place where Charlie Manx takes children to live forever. He took the wrong kid when he took Vic McQueen at age 17. She escaped, Manx went to prison, maybe he died? Maybe he didn’t. But Christmasland still exists and now he has Vic’s son.
This is a crazy adventure! I always love a badass woman protagonist, and Vic is defi ...more

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Oct 30, 2017 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2017-read

Creepy in all the right ways. The reader for the audiobook did an awesome job with this book--I'm not surprised I liked her here as I've also liked her as Red in Orange is the New Black and as Captain Janeway in Star Trek Voyager. In any event, I think hearing this book read aloud made it especially creepy.

Maybe it's just me, but I've always found the idea of Christmas just a little nefarious anyway -- this guy is watching you all the time and judging you, then he's going to sneak into your hous ...more

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Aug 12, 2016 Phaedra rated it really liked it

It's been a long time since I read anything in the "horror" genre, and man! this did not disappoint. I'm tempted to go for five stars. I went into this knowing very little about the book other than it had a strong female protagonist and was recommended on some book nerd site or another. What I got was a little bit of magic, some deeply damaged and flawed main characters, a categorically evil antagonist... and a story about love and redemption. Surprising and unputdownable. ...more

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Nov 16, 2021 Christine rated it really liked it

Whelp Christmas songs will never be the same again 😬. I'm so glad I went with the audiobook for this experience. I was so much more engaged knowing how long this book was through the audio. It's a lot to digest but the story was so well done. If you are a fan of creepy horror and like those stories that leave you unsettled but not disgusted then this is for you. If I had to narrow the theme down to one simple description - it's about parenting in a world of monsters. ...more

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