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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Latoya Watkins﹒

Two Books Written By this Author:

Perish

Holler, Child: Stories

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Book Review: Fav book of 2022?

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨4.5 stars

Content warning: child abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), mentions of suicide, rape, incest, domestic and sexual assault, a POV from a character who committed sexual assault, and abortion.

Summary: Watkin's debut novel, Perish, follows the Turner family and the consequences of the matriarch, Helen Jean, who feels obligated by God to keep her child rather than try to abort the child again. Bear it or perish. Her decision has lasting consequences that ripple through subsequent generations.

The novel alternates between alternating points of view: Helen Jean; Julie B, the only one of Helen Jean's children who still live with her; Jan, plagued by the trauma she suffered as a child; Lydia, whose infertility has ruined her marriage; and Alex, now a cop who has a twisted, dark past that leaves him questioning if one can rid themselves of the darkness within them.

All must come together as Helen Jean's death is approaching and face the secrets they've all done their best to not vocalize. It's a painful journey to relive and with each truth revealed the heartbreak only intensifies.

Review (non-spoiler):

An absolutely beautiful and gut-wrenching novel. Watkin's novel masterfully explores generational trauma and the difficulties in breaking away from it. Each character is difficult to like as all their flaws are out in the open but you feel deeply for all of them and the trauma each character was forced to endure. It's a bold choice to include a perspective of a character who is a rapist but an appropriate one. Watkins never absolves her characters of their mistakes, and even demands that we as humans need to take responsibility for our part, but her added insight adds depth to the character that shows how we as humans can make our own monsters thinking we're going to do better than our parents only to repeat the cycle.

"She looks like someone who got everything wrong because she had been wronged."

The way this line shook me. My generational trauma is not as intense as the Turner family but I could read my feelings on each page. Understand the feeling of wanting to shake everyone and just ask them to talk. To beg others to let go of their pride and ego and work together. To want to run away and take my siblings away because it seems the only way out is to run. To feel disappointment, shame, and anguish at the realization you've repeated the mistakes of your parents. That you might have even done worse. Reading this inspired me to journal the night of and ask myself what of my own family's trauma?

This isn't an easy book to get through. Much of the content warning I mentioned is explicit and I urge people to be careful picking up this book. It's a worthwhile read but it can send a person down a dark hole very fast.

The pacing is quick thankfully and surprisingly considering much of the story is told through memories and the actual plot of the book is only about a few days' worths. Very character-driven novel. Prose is exceptional. At times I struggles with the dialect since I'm unfamiliar with southern dialect but I kept going and it became easy to understand. I hear the audiobook is excellent and has a full cast of characters. This could have been a 5 but aside from the first chapter, the beginning is actually a little tough to get through, and I had to convince myself to keep going. Also, trying to keep track of the characters and who's related to who can get confusing and there are some aspects to the story that I feel are glossed over. I know this isn't how it works out but I really wanted an epilogue for this book.

Amazing job! I know technically she's written two other books that weren't very popular but this is being hailed as her debut novel and I'm surprised because I'd expect this level of writing from a writer with several titles under her belt.

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Perish: A Novel

By LaToya Watkins.

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Perish LaToya Watkins

Hardcover | 336 pages 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.9 cm)

Published Spring 2022 by Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House

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October Book Wrap Up

We've reached the end of October 😢 I've enjoyed this month so much focusing largely on horror books. I've grown quite fond of the horror genre and I'll be sure to read more before 2022 ends. It's been great adding more magic into my life through dark academia which I realized infuses a lot of magical realism, science-fiction, and fantasy. somehow also found the first book to ever offend me so much I wanted to tear it into pieces.

Total books read: 21 books 📚 Just 3 shy of my dream goal but I met my minimum. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King took me out of commission for a few days. It was incredibly long and while I enjoyed it immensely it drained so much of me so I recommend never starting a book month with one of King's unless it's all you plan on only reading that month.

Favorite books: Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Mayberry. Perfect amount of lovable characters combined with characters I hate, creepy, good dash of humor, easy-to-follow plot despite multiple characters and events happening, and great twists! It's considered horror but at least for the book in the series (can't wait to read the other two) this reads more like a thriller to me.

The Book Theif is a genuine masterpiece and that's all I need to say.

Perish by LaToya Watkins is a hard, traumatic read but it's so so worth the read. My review is here

Book I expected to love more but didn't: The Picture of Dorian Grey. Don't get me wrong; it's a wonderful book. I rated it a 4.25. Considering how much praise it receives I was expecting to be obsessed and in love but instead, I put it down and said, "good, but I don't think I'd pick it up again." Glad to have it off my list.

My least favorite book: Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match. I have never hated a book as much as I did but this one set me on edge and I had to put it down and skim it because it just kept getting worse and worse. Here's my lovely review.

Favorite Horror book: Kill Creek by Scott Thomas. I was absolutely enamored with all the authors and how well-written each character was. Ending was a perfect twist that I loved and I loved how Thomas explored the different avenues of horror through each character.

Reading Challenges:

The Horror Aficionados group on Goodreads is hosting a challenge to read horror stories that meet the following listed topics:

Bat 🦇 Cat 🐱‍👤 Haunting 👻 Hell House by Richard Matheson ⭐⭐⭐✨(3.75) Graveyard ☠ The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ⭐⭐⭐⭐(4.25) Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin 🎃 Halloween Horrors: 12 Tales of Terror by Blair Daniels, John Beardify, and others ⭐⭐⭐✨ (3.8) Monster 👹 Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.9) Scarecrow 😱 Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Mayberry ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5) Treats 🍬🍭 Tricks 😈 Kill Creek by Scott Thomas ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5) Vampire 🧛‍♂️Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ⭐⭐⭐✨ (3.5) Werewolf🐩 Werewolf by Ed Warren (⭐⭐⭐✨ 3.5) Witch 🧙‍♀️🧹 Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.1) Zombie 🧟‍♀️

I didn't finish the challenge but I did manage to make a huge dent and should def meet the November 30th deadline.

Popsugar Reading Challenge: I told myself I would read these prompts to keep me on track to finish the challenge but I didn't finish two of them but I did manage to stil accomplish two other prompts so still on track

A book about or set in a nonpatriarchial society Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.9)

A book with cuterly in the cover or in the title: Did not do

A book about witches Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.1)

A book set on a train, plane, or cruise ship: Did not Do

An #ownvoicesSFF bok: The Picture of Dorian Gray ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.25)

A book featuring a parallel reality Sleeping Beauties

A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid Howl's, Moving Castle ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨(4.5)

Prompts I did instead:

A book with an onomatopoeia in its title: Howl's Moving Castle

A book about someone leading a double life: Abraha Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

A Hugo Award Winner: The Graveyard Book

I'm super on track; enough so that I can even look to reading alternate titles for past prompts where I've used a book to fill at least two prompts