If you enjoyed The Little Paris Bookshop then you’ll enjoy this book just as much.
But, if you’re one of those miserable people who didn’t like The Little Paris Bookshop, or just want to hate on every piece of uplit ever written then you’ll probably be better off just passing it by.
What struck me most about this story is how much Marianne’s life with her gaslighting husband reminds me of my own mother. Like Lothar, my father was also a sergeant-major in the army, and although it was the British Army they spent most of the first 15 years of their marriage living in Germany. Sadly, my mother never left my father, instead she chose a life of benzodiazepines and any other crazy medication she could get off her quacks.
Reading this book made me think what might have been possible for my mother and her two children if she’d only had the courage to leave and get away. If you are being gaslighted, then be aware that the person doing it is a sociopath and the only way you deal with sociopaths is to run away, far away, and never look back.
Bye for now.
It had certainly been a while since i read any Xuya stories when i finally got this in my Kindle’s memory bank, but i soon fell back into the universe like i’d never been away.
Another interesting story about the forthcoming apocalypse and what the AI’s will think about us, and our behaviour, afterwards.
Available in the anthology 
What if today was the last beautiful day ever?
Alastair is back with one of his great little stories.
To begin, i would just like to mention that i received a free copy of this book from Kathleen and Kelley to read and review.
Fairly good, but this series is getting rather repetitive. I really think Joseph needs to go off on a different tangent with this story line. Lex really doesn’t need to be saving every universe in existence in every story, surely there’s something else he’d rather be doing?
Available in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
If you enjoyed Joseph’s Book of Deacon side story The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy then you’ll love this little story.