24 Hour Readathon: April 21-22
💗💗💗 I finished out the work week with a venti cold brew and A History of Fear by Luke Dumas. It was the perfect book to get lost in after a long day. The novel takes the form of a manuscript within a manuscript (within the actual manuscript of Dumas's book). A journalist covers the murder of a Scottish university student by an American graduate student studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh--a story that gains widespread coverage after the accused claims to have committed the murder under the influence of the Devil. The book we are reading is the journalist's book, though the majority of the text is a separate manuscript written by the accused murderer and found in his prison cell, with the addition of interviews and other primary sources. Mixed media horror novels are always fun, and it is easy to get pulled into Grayson's recounting of his experiences after arriving in Scotland to follow the footsteps of his recently deceased father. What I found most impressi