Got this as a eARC from Netgallery.

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My Wife, The Serial Killer by H.J Garbett

So July has ended and now I'm a 40 year old , it was a warm and muggy one🥵. I read/listened to 17 books all but one being an ARC/ALC, I was able to squeeze number 17 on my birthday finishing My Wife, The Serial Killer at 23.50pm. I hope to read more and make a dent in my ever growing ARC pile.

I got this as an ALC from booksprout.

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Got this from Netgallery as an ARC, as I like the sound of the description. I gave it 4.75 as I did love the setting which shows a time period when disco was on it's way out but also seeing punk beginning to show up also glam rock, also getting a sense of New York in the late 70s to early 80s period with mention of club 54 and the like. Lynda doesn't miss a chance to name drop famous people she rubs shoulders with, as I said Lynda is unlikeable to me but I can admit she can be compelling but you see early on that she is a sociopath who feels trapped in her New Jersey town teaching position that she has been forced to take while her poetry ambitions have been stalled. This was a good read but had to knock off a little on my rating as Lynda was just so unlikeable to me.

Might contain spoilers.

Further thoughts might get a bit spoilery. Honestly did not know what to expect when I first read this as my horror taste runs towards vampires, ghosts/supernatural and this is eco/science horror but again not sure but I did really like this. Using the real world initiative called rewilding which involves reintroducing extinct animals back into a place they were once native to. So we get a big red flag when we see that Kelvin the disgraced tech genius rich guy has brought back some prehistoric predators not really adapted to the Scottish wilds also they are some other more modern predatory animals that are used to having large parcels of land to roam but are now fighting to get food which is causing unusual behaviour. Into this we get Steph Patel who is a field biologist but seems to be making a career writing about cryptids which is never really explained that comes to investigate a young boy's death that gets her mixed up in the mysterious initiative that Kelvin is doing when trying to get a look at his base. Like I said this had massive Jurassic park vibes and we know how well that went 😬.