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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

Matt Ruff

Start date: May 2, 2016

Finish date: June 1, 2016

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Jan 09, 2019 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy-and-scifi, dystopia, 2019

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

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Jan 14, 2017 Christine H rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: halloween, horror

This was exceptional! Ruff does a fantastic job of crafting relatable, three-dimensional characters, which is the heart of the book. He weaves the sadly mundane horrors and dread of an African-American family during Jim Crow with cosmic horror and weird tales, and it is completely mesmerizing.

Each chapter is basically a short story, with one of the central cast of characters taking POV for that section. Early on the stories track closely with Lovecraft's own fiction, while later chapters pay ho ...more

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Jun 13, 2019 Christina rated it really liked it

Shelves: popsugar-2019-reading-challenge, lovecraft, horror

Popsugar 2019 Reading Challenge: A book becoming a movie in 2019

Okay, fine, it's a TV series, but it still counts.
I enjoyed this book a lot. I love reading books with nerdy characters, and there are so many nerds in this! Ruff wrote a lot of characters to root for: people who step into the world of the supernatural with equal parts curiosity and matter-of-fact acceptance. I had a particular soft spot for Letitia.

In addition to being entertaining and horrifying (the everyday racism significantly ...more

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