 Hello, today on Typical Books we're going to have a little bit of a May catch up. It seems like I just did a catch up in April and I'm not really susceptible to this time as a big blur thing during the virus because I have a pretty set schedule every day and if I don't then I make a set schedule when I wake up in the morning and figure out tasks to do. So I'm not really that like out of sorts but it does feel like I just did one of these but there have been a lot of really cool new releases so I wanted to go over those and talk a little bit about what I'm reading right now. While going through some of my books and deciding what to read next I was going to read this but I was timing and hiring and going over like the first pages of things and saw what caught me the most and I realized much to the delight of Andrew from Grumpy Andrews Horror House. This is a signed copy. I never looked to this past the frontispiece like it is signed so I count myself pretty lucky because I would have never met James Herbert and I don't have a lot of signed copies. When we go into some more of the upstairs stuff there's a lot of cool collectible stuff that has maybe signature plates and signature pages but those aren't like signed and I have some things like Nancy Kilpatrick signed and things that I've met authors in person but I don't get out much right so this is gold to me. Pure gold considering I paid 7.99. That was my runner-up read over The Pet by Charles L Grant and I am totally digging this. This is such a throwback to the horror that I grew up on and the quiet horror that really spoke to me and it's a little more dastardly than I would have expected from Charles L Grant so I'm very excited to become a new Charles L Grant fan and yeah I'm really enjoying The Pet. I think the thing that I'm enjoying the most about The Pet right now is that the main character reminds me of a super young Jeff Dahmer and not like the Jeff Dahmer that we know from the giant FBI file that maybe I'll do a booktube show on that someday. My husband has everything that you would ever have in a file on Jeffery Dahmer but it reminds me of the Jeff Dahmer from My Friend Dahmer by Dirk Bakter that you may remember from a previous typical book. So as far as what I've been reading I mean I've been slow to read lately. I finished playing The Witcher and it's DLC components and I played a little bit of Diablo but I'm not really into gaming right now. I think The Witcher kind of sucked a lot of that out on me and I haven't watched the series before anyone asks either but I really liked the game a lot and I want to just chew on that for a while so I'm not going to play any other games for a bit. What I have been doing though is writing a lot. I've submitted a couple works. I've submitted work that I had finished writing a while ago and I'm working on two other stories right now that I really need to buckle down on so I've been spending quality time writing those. I've got two novels one on the go one done so I'm pecking away at those for sure but of course aside from all of that I'd rather be making videos because it's a lot more fun than actually sitting on my bum in a chair all day and luckily a lot of other authors have sat with their bums in chairs and brought us some really cool new releases. So to catch up a little bit we had left off with The Finders by Jeffrey A. B. Burton. This is from Saint Martin's Press their imprint minotaur and this will be coming out in a month or two. Mason, Mace Reed, lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection. That is he trains dogs to hunt for the dead. My dream job. He adopts a rescue dog with a mysterious past. A golden retriever named Vera. And I love the cover of this book for this reason. I am a big old yeller, homeward bound, used to own a golden lab. And when Reed begins training Vera as a cadaver dog he comes to realize just how special the newest addition to his family truly is. Well that sounds fun. The Shadow of a Shadow by R. H. Dixon. I really like the cover of this too. It reminds me it's sort of like this Ms. Pergwens look to it. Like Les Mis, like I don't know what it is about this picture. It's probably stock but I mean who knows I just really like the design. The typography I think is what gets me. Dracula obsessed Catherine Hall must piece together the disturbing truth of what happened to her runaway cousin Calanth in the summer of 2003. Calanthi? Calanthi? Calanth? I'm not sure how to pronounce his name. Because when she visits her aunts B&B and Whitby something dark and terrifying is growing in the shadows, something that breathes, something that bites. This is from Corvus Carone Press by R. H. Dixon, nice. And his Scream Queen by Brooklyn Ann from Burroughs Publishing. And when Lucio Argento's girlfriend dumps him because she wants to be prom queen and thinks he'll hinder her. He decides to play Pygmalion without cast Jamie Blair and make a rival for the crown. This sounds a little bit like Carrie. However, when other condenders are brutally murdered, Lucio's quest for revenge is abandoned to protect Jamie and stop the killer. Angel's Rose by Lauren Rhodes from Automatism Press. And this book is already out. After they escape from the ashes of Lost Angels, the succubus Lorelai and the angel Azizel want nothing more than to enjoy each other's company. Unfortunately, Asmodeus, the prince demon of LA, has threatened to devour Lorelai's new grown soul if she doesn't bring about Azizel's downfall. I have a hard time with demon names, as you can tell. But yeah, this I thought from the cover and from the name of it was a YA novel. Considering all the demonology, I don't think so. It could be YA demonology, like what not? Jurassic War by John Dennehy. This comes from Severed Press and is already out. US Marines land on a remote atoll to carry out a seek and destroy mission. They encounter Japanese infantrymen and the raiders must also overcome deadly indigenous wildlife. Dinosaurs have not become extinct in all parts of the uncharted world. Turok, too, coming to theaters near you. There was another game trailer for something I can't remember the name of right now, but I was like, is this Turok, too? Is this Turok, too? Every time there's a dinosaur on screen, I'm like, Turok, too. So this might be my Turok. Yeah, I just a big hold out geek for Turok. Turok's rising. The Turok cometh. Turok's in the mist. So there you have it. Those are some new releases coming out. I've got some stuff on the go. I have a horror review for The Haunting of Glatsby House, which is long overdue, and it'll be posted either today or tomorrow. And coming soon will be the Pet from Charles L. Grant. If you have anything that you think I should be reading, just let me know. And always let me know what you are reading, too, because that fuels my toppling to be red pile. Thank you very much for watching and have an oaky spooky day.