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Posted 2016-03-12 3:46 PM (#12976 - in reply to #12253)
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'No One Gets Out Alive' is my favourite book this year. From the first page the reader is thrust into a 'haunted house' novel and it is relentless, over nearly 650 pages. It is so much more than a Ghost story, indeed ghosts are the least of the protagonists problems. It captures the desperation and desolation of working class young people in the UK with no options. It captures perfectly the psychology of the slum lord and the psychopath. Frightening, chilling and malevolent. Not a pleasant read but a gripping one - loved it.

12 in 12 Challenge 2016

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Hugo winner) 2.5 / 5
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Nebula / Shirley Jackson winner) 4.5 / 5
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (BSFA / Locus SF winner) 3 / 5
Tales From Rugosa Coven by Sarah Avery (Mythopoeic winner) 4 / 5
Redshirts by John Scalzi (Hugo / Locus SF winner) 4 / 5
No One Gets Out Alive (August Derleth winner) 5 / 5

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