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Title:Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches #1)
Author:Cherie Priest
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 435 pages
Published:September 2nd 2014 by Roc
Categories:Horror. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy
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Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one....
 
The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.
 
But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness.
 
This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.
 

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ISBN: 0451466977 (ISBN13: 9780451466976)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Borden Dispatches #1
Literary Awards: Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2015)

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I finished this one a couple of nights ago and I've been (on and off) considering what to rate it. Many of you will "love" this book and I'm sure others will like it much more than I did. I have to go with a "not bad". This is a sort of down the middle rating between like and...blah. The problem for me is what others will probably like best. This is an epistolary novel and we get a view primarily from Emma Borden's point of view though "Lizzie's" viewpoint also comes in as do others. The plus

What did I just read? I sort of liked this book. I love historical fiction & the setting of this one, 1890's Massachusetts, was pleasing. I enjoyed the epistolary format as well, with the different voices of the various characters. But, on the other hand, I don't really get it. Maybe because I've never read Lovecraft, and this is supposed to be Lovecraftian mythology (Chthulhu, I think). The ending was the biggest disappointment for me. I really didn't understand the resolution at all. I

The question is not "What is wrong?" A closer query would be "What is different?" or "What is changing?" Something is changing. Something is shifting, or slipping. I want to ask if I'm losing my mind, but who would answer? How on earth can I step outside my brain and ask it to evaluate, with all fairness, its effectiveness as a body-governing device? It might only lie to me. How would I know? What if......... What if Lizzie Borden really did take an axe and kill her father and stepmother? And

This is a fun read! It is full of explicit scenes of horrific gore, but it also introduces a reimagined Lizzie Borden as warrior and hero, giving an alternate reason for her ax expertise. I was reminded of 19th century gothic romances by the books construction. Each character keeps a journal and the chapters alternate between several people writing of their lives, adventures and feelings. But while the basic style is a reminder of the Victorian manners of earlier authors writing for penny

If somebody told you they were reading a book in which Lizzie Borden fights Lovecraftian horrors with her infamous axe, you might snicker a little. You might think, "Oh, great. Another historical fiction gag a la Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Special." I've been awaiting Maplecroft's release for a long while now, mainly on the strength of Cherie Priest's general badassery, but also because for a historical horror and Lovecraft/ian junkie, that's actually an impossible pitch to resist.

Did I really just read that? Ugh, I did. I decided to read this book because I had a Fantasy novel itch I needed to scratch, and I took the advice of a certain ex-child actor whom I follow on Goodreads and picked it up. My own distaste aside, I will attempt to give an objective review of the book (not). There are two separate issues to address: the rather inexplicable plot and the clumsily crafted characters with their corresponding "themes." Ms. Priests' prose, while not exactly breathtaking,

This was basically the perfect Lovecraftian narrative; creeping horror, startling gore, insidious madness juxtaposed with outright violent lunacy, and told entirely in letters. I'd thought I was getting a bit jaded as far as Lovecraftian-inspired tales were concerned but this was excellent. The ending was *slightly* anticlimactic but not enough to spoil it, and anyone whining that a "Cthulhu vs Lizzie showdown" never happens is...ill-informed. It would be pointless, as would literally everything