2025-10-31 -- Books in October
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(I'm  mostly writing this down for myself. Probalby not very interesting
to other people.)

First one was (the rest of) "Beatrice" by Lina  Bengtsdotter,  the  last
installment  of the "Charlie Lager" series. I'm already struggling a bit
here, because this was a few weeks ago -- I should take these notes ear-
lier. Anyway, I remember it to be a solid, captivating story. I was hop-
ing for a more "definitive" ending,  though,  something  that  makes  it
clear  that the story really is over now. (Like the soul-crushing ending
of "Wallander".) But it was a good read and time well spent.

Then I had to wait for a while, because I ran out of books.  Eventually,
"Dead  Silence"  by S.A. Barnes (Stacey Kade) arrived. I was looking for
"books like Event Horizon" and ended up here. And  this  was  a  *great*
one.  It  wasn't exactly Event Horizon, that would have been boring any-
way, but the overall atmosphere was similar and just as eerie.  The  au-
thor has published more books of that genre and I'm surely going to read
those as well.

Finally,  there was "Kraehentage" by Benjamin Cors. (Dunno if there's an
english version. The title means something along the lines of  "days  of
the  crows".)  I  had very mixed feelings about this one. It started out
with a lot of what we would call "toxic masculinity" these  days.  There
was  more  animal cruelty than I expected. And the cops were "bad asses"
-- beating up suspects and even getting one killed, it was frowned upon,
but meh, let's carry on with the investigation, shall we? The story  it-
self  was interesting and had a lot of twists and turns, so I kept read-
ing despite this. It kept getting better towards the end -- but the main
characters were still mostly assholes. :-)

I have another SciFi story waiting to be read. But, uhm, yeah, I  should
go shopping again.