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Just let you know, I consider the author a friend, but anyone who knows me knows that I am far more critical of my friends than I am strangers. So I don't feel that that has made any bias here, formed any bias, however you want to say it. I'm a huge fan of the Luminous Dead, her first novel, and I love the novella Yellow Jezemine with both I've reviewed here on the channel. This one, I went out and bought this brand new from Books a Million, paid full price for it. I don't even have a discount card. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to grab it to support her work. Absolutely fantastic author and a great human being. She signed with St. Martin's Press for this book, so it's a pretty big deal. I believe, I can't remember who did. The Luminous Dead wasn't a small press, but I think Yellow Jezemine was. Yellow Jezemine is a beautiful book. I have it packed away. It was one of my both books were on my best of list for 2020, even though I read Luminous Dead early early in the year. But anyways, let's talk about the book. This book follows Jane Lawrence, who reminds me so much of my friend Sarah Frost. Sarah, if you happen to see this, I think you'd love this. The character is very analytical, very straightforward, honest to a fault, an amazingly in-depth portrait of this woman and her idiosyncrasies. She ends up meeting a man and they get married, even though it is alluded to that he might not be interested. It's not really alluded to that he's not interested in consummating the marriage. He's not interested in them living together. He's going to stay at a place called Lindridge Hall. Well, and the man's a doctor and his name's Augustine, by the way. And August, well, Jane is going to be sleeping at the surgery that Augustine runs and he spends every night at Lindridge Hall. There's a reason for all of this. In fact, that was my favorite part of the book is finding out the little reasons for everything, everything that's going on with him, everything he does, and how Jane's idiosyncrasies, like I said, tie into the development of the book. And the number zero and its validity, as I said, is a very important theme of the book. This, this is the first gothic romance. I guess I'm going to call it that. The first gothic romance I have ever had over head over heels fallen in love with. And I call it a gothic romance because there it is a gothic setting. There is romance, but stuff actually happens. And I think that's the most important thing for me. You know, you guys know I look for character pacing and dread. I loved every single character in the story. They all suited a purpose. I hope I'm going to say this right, but I especially love Dr. Nazamiyev. This is also an alternate, I guess, alternate reality, because instead of Britain, the place is called Breltane. And instead of Russia, it's Ruskin. So there's little things like that. None of the places actually exist. But the most fascinating part here is the stuff that does actually happen, the stuff that keeps you turning the pages. I first picked up the book just to check it out when I got it home from my shopping trip. And I just wanted to read the first page, see what the writing was like. And all of a sudden I was 16 pages deep. I just had to read it. Even though I didn't really have time to fit it in, I'm super glad that I did. It's one of my favorite reads of the year. And I think it is Starling's best work. It is okay. So here's my pitch for you. It has magic. It has ghosts. It has creatures. It has blood. It has gore. It has action. This book has everything. I don't care what genre you enjoy. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance. It has everything. And all of Caitlyn's books have had that. But this one especially, I think, like I said, it's her best work. I am so glad that she found a publisher for this one. You know, a big publisher that was willing to do a hard cover because the book is absolutely gorgeous. I mean, it's just beautiful. And I almost didn't want to read this copy because it was so nice. I almost got the e-book, but I probably wouldn't finish the e-book. Y'all know I don't like that format. But anyways, I blew through this book. I was reading anywhere from 50 to 70 pages a day. And that's a lot for me. I know it seems like I read a lot faster and a lot more than I do, but really, you know, I don't. I just have a lot of time during the day. I was reading Tim Meyers' Malignant Summer along with that. I was doing 20 pages a day just to get, you know, and anyways, let me not talk about that book. That review is coming soon. Probably Friday. I don't know when this one is going up, but this is the last week. I don't have a few more videos to shoot. Anywho, so this book, I really, really do hope it finds love and finds a home in all of your guys' hearts and your bookshelves. I feel this book is special. I don't know how else to put it. I was intrigued and engaged and fascinated the entire way through. And that just happens so rarely for me nowadays. You know, it might happen maybe five times a year at most. But with this one, man, it kept me locked in. And I absolutely loved it. Will it be my number one for the year? Who knows? I still have some other books to get through. But right now, it's way, way up there. But have you read The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling? If you have, let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, whether or not you hated it, whether or not you felt meh about it, especially if you hated it. I would love to talk to someone who did not like this book because I want to know why. I couldn't find any faults, and maybe you did. But yeah, that's everything. Leave your comments down there. Let me know what you thought of the book. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!