This week I'm featuring Splintered Mind (Shattered World Book 1) by W.R. Gingell. This is such a fun start to the series! I loved this wonderfully weird urban fantasy.
She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule. Instead, Viv finds herself following Jasper into a strange new world where a murderous madman has been incarcerated in a secret floor at the old Kew Asylum that may or may not exist in the human world as she knows it.
Reality is just as worryingly soft at the old tea house itself, which hides a few too many not-quite-human secrets. In one of the downstairs rooms, there’s a little girl who has been a little girl for a suspiciously long time; in the uppermost floor, there are a few windows that show a view that doesn’t exist in Melbourne. And then there are the giant cephalopod tentacles that appear from nowhere and disappear again, seemingly at will…
Now Viv isn’t sure if she’s going mad, or if the world itself has gone mad and the lunatic in Kew Asylum is the only sane person she knows.
This Australian Urban Fantasy is heavy on gothica, dark cosy/cozy, and crikeycore. There are a lot of murders, a lot more u's than you might expect, and some waking nightmares that may affect those with parasomnia.
Book Beginnings / First Line Friday
Viv first saw the purple plaid trousers at the tram stop.
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Viv wouldn't have followed him outside - she wanted to find Jasper, not the great outdoors - but she saw just in time that they were about to enter a garden, the walls of which were high and brick and covered with living foliage.
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