When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]
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Read more "Life Comes at You Fast: Harlan Coben’s The Boy from the Woods"Thanks to a mysterious device, Cassandra has returned to the 1880s New York City on a mission of mercy. While a youth, she lived through horror at the hands of the sinister Dr. Enoch Leng and later discovered he was directly responsible for one of her sibling’s deaths and unintentionally responsible for the other. Now […]
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