This series is gross, and creepy, and weird, and I'm loving it. Seriously, I can't believe I slept on this series for so long. I love that it's a serial with each volume introducing new characters and new scenarios, but it's all connected with old characters coming into play. This episode was a little different because it could be read normally, or you could read it back to front. I think this might be the weirdest volume to date. Though I'm liking the fact that the timeline is also not straight, issues fit into the timeline differently. So there's a bit of background on characters from issue one, or more of the story in later issues. Honestly, the only reason I'm not jumping into volume 5 right now, I need to read some of the books I own. So I need a library break. But I'll be putting the next volume on hold the second I jump back into the library.
This was great! I will admit that I have not seen the original movie from Universal Monsters. So I cannot compare it to that. I've only seen the movie from the 90's, which would be like comparing apples and oranges. Which is a dumb turn of phrase because I hate both. ANYWAY! Despite not having seen the original, I did thoroughly enjoy this. The pace was quick, and the story was something we've all heard before about people way back when studying ancient Egypt. Yelling, 'Do not read from the book,' is one of my favorite things. So, a bonus point that I did get to yell that while reading this. Extra points for weird deaths, possession, and creepy mummy deaths at the end! I enjoyed this from start to finish!
Hellraiser is one of my favorite series, from the books to the movies to the graphic novels. I saw the movies first (probably way younger than I should have), and only after did I realize they were based on books. This series was the first time I was introduced to body horror. Reading this, I realized two things: one, I need to read The Hellbound Heart again because it's time, and two, I have never read The Scarlet Gospels. So, to do the former, I need to reread the first book. The Toll falls in between those two books. There were parts of this that I really liked and that I found interesting. There were also some parts that sort of fell flat for me. As a whole, it was an interesting filler between books one and two. And I love that it was a way to jump back to the literary version of this universe. I'll be adding the first book to my summer TBR!
This was the perfect audiobook for my job, filled with vignettes of Texas women who committed some crazy crimes. So not only was this filled with cases I've never read about before, but Skip Hollandsworth was able to interview most of the women in these stories. So they were able to tell their own stories to him. Not just second or third-party accounts, but primary sources able to tell their own tales. Which made them harder to listen to in places, but more real. It's just something different since most of the true crime books I listen to were from so far back there's no one alive to speak to. So facts get distorted. But in She Kills, so many of these women were able to tell their own stories, and honestly, a few times you couldn't really blame them.
HAPPY READING!!
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