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Made a decent dent in my "to do" list of stuff I should do but didn't want to do. My adulting, let me not bore you with it. I did get my review of my LT Early Review book up finally (huzzah!) and it was one I really enjoyed but I might review it here later with more detail. I also might not because I am spectacularly lazy so we'll see how it goes.


Ozma and I finished Hill House and unlike Cass, I think I enjoyed it. I say think because it feels weird to say you enjoy something where the vast majority of the time everyone involved (on screen) is freakin' miserable.

But I did. I think it was really well done and it balanced the flashbacks and the current story and it definitely relied more on creeping dread and terror than it did on actual horror. As someone who has not enjoyed horror's detour into torture porn, I'm happy to have something I can watch without feeling physically ill. I'm not saying it doesn't have its moments of ick; one of the characters runs a funeral home and there are decaying ghosts. But I can only think of two major jump scares that got me and one I was even warned about beforehand (not by Cass). I was just so caught up in the story/scene that it didn't occur to me that this was going to be the OHMYGLOB scene until after it happened.

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tl;dr: fantastic casting, creeping dread, would recommend honestly.