I bought There’s Something in the Water! – Marine Biology for Kids for £0.49 on the Amazon Kindle Store. My little step niece is only seven, and she’sI bought There’s Something in the Water! – Marine Biology for Kids for £0.49 on the Amazon Kindle Store. My little step niece is only seven, and she’s been asking about the intense studying I do about sharks all the time, so when I found this, I decided to buy it and use it to introduce her to marine biology.
She absolutely adored this, and I enjoyed it as well. The pages are bright with really wonderful photos in them, and I’ve never seen her so entranced by something that wasn’t a teddy bear before. She sat and ran her finger over every image, and let me sit and tell her exactly what the species was, what kind of animal they are, etc. The information itself in this, is quite a bit older than what I would expect. There was some stuff throughout it, terms that I only just learned as a twenty year old student, much less what a younger child would know, and there’s no glossary or anything similar. A glossary would have gone down really well in this book, explaining the hard to know “adult” terms in the book, I think.
Other than that, this was really sweet. My step niece is suddenly much more interested in the ocean, and the small section about keeping the oceans clean in this has made her want to go on the Great British Beach Clean Up with me next year. Not my cup of tea, but definitely enjoyable for younger children....more
Trigger warnings: rape, blood, gore, torture, cannibalism, and the list goes on
I first discovered Richard Laymon at the pure age of 13, looking aroundTrigger warnings: rape, blood, gore, torture, cannibalism, and the list goes on
I first discovered Richard Laymon at the pure age of 13, looking around the library horror section. I discovered Friday Night in Beast House and saw it was a short read, so I grabbed it without a second thought. After devouring it twice in an hour, I realised I had a deep love for splatter punk, specifically, Laymon's works. Unfortunately, my dad found out what I was reading and I was banned from the horror section. Wonderful. Recently, I found a lot of Laymon's books on the Kindle Store for merely 99 pence, and just had to dive back into him.
Finally, I got some time to settle down and read The Woods are Dark and it is the best damn decision I have ever made.
The Woods are Dark is a fast paced, gore fest, and right up my alley. There were hardly any breaks, and although usually, this leaves the reader almost breathless, Laymon does it perfectly. It's not a rush, it's fast paced in a gripping way that really makes you crave more, and I found this so impossible to put down, I passed out when reading it at night because I was so tired.
The next day, I gladly binge read this to completion, and I have never wanted to immediately turn a book back to the first page and start reading it all over again. This reignited my love for splatter punk and I cannot wait to dive into the rest of Laymon's works; probably starting with The Complete Beast House Chronicles considering that was the first series I fell in love with him for.
I'd definitely recommend this to horror lovers who love their gore content, and I would say this is probably not the best book to start out with if you're just getting into splatter punk; there's a lot to take in on the "darker side" of fiction. On the other hand, this is probably one of the better books you can read, with good content, a fast but not too fast pace, and damn good writing.
A brilliant 5/5 book, and I'm definitely back in love with Laymon. A pure masterpiece, and a genius of the genre....more
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