Down the Rabbit Hole

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week’s topic was originally “Bookish merchandise I’d love to own” but since I don’t care as much for cute knickknacks, I’ve decided to focus solely on special edition books I’ve seen before and wished to have had the chance to open. You know these things get you because they’re exclusive and super limited in stock.

Disclaimer: I will be advertising a number of different businesses in my following list but I am not affiliated with any of them or receiving any compensation for such advertisement. I’m purely putting them out there because I love the work they’ve done!

OwlCrate: White Once Upon a Broken Heart cover

Current availability: In stock on website (not too many copies available)

I love the pink exclusive edition from Barnes & Noble/Indigo which I have (and even the original black cover), but there’s something very pleasing about this white version too. But I have a weird thing about buying the same book twice (spacing issues, you know?) so obviously I had to just pick one.

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Review: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.

Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren’t really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?

In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.

Four months into the new year but I’m still picking random books off the shelf, oops! However, this one was a good one and I’m glad to be sharing it all with you. It was a super tense and suspenseful thriller, despite the overall plot not being too too surprising. I still enjoyed it though, and hope you will too.

A Flicker in the Dark follows a woman, Chloe Davis, who is now a successful psychologist. However, she has a dark background, her father was charged and imprisoned for the abduction of teenaged girls over twenty years ago. The trauma of her childhood constantly haunts her though she tries to help others with their psychological problems. When suddenly another teenager goes missing, Chloe feels as if she’s falling back into her past, the trauma resurfacing where it was barely suppressed before. Do these abductions have anything to do with her? Or is she just being paranoid?

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Let’s Talk Bookish – The Book Blogging Community

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022 Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each others’ posts.

Update: Effective April 2022, Aria @ Book Nook Bits will be the new host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

APRIL 15: JOYS & PET PEEVES OF THE (BOOK) BLOGGING COMMUNITY (KRISTIN @ LUKTEN AV TRYKKSVERTE)

Prompts: What are some things you love about the blogging community? What are some things you dislike? When do you feel the most/least connected to the community? What are some things you’d like to see changed when it comes to blogging? Have there been any major changes in the community since you started to blog that you love?

Welcome to another week here at LTB at DTRH! It’s about to be Easter for those who celebrate it, and we are now halfway through April. The spring weather is finally starting to come around where I live, for which I am incredibly grateful. Today’s topic is certainly interesting and something that I hadn’t really thought about too much. I’m interested to see how the rest of you feel on this topic!

I’m still relatively new (if I can still say that) to the community so I haven’t really been through all the ups and downs of the journey. I love that everyone in the community that I have come across were really quite friendly. I’d say overall it’s a welcoming community and those who post and leave comments on others’ blogs have all been friendly and kind.

Currently I wouldn’t say I dislike anything. I guess sometimes it can be difficult to find new blogs to follow and I just don’t generally hear as much through the grapevine. It’s only when there’s a particular tag, community posts, or memes like LTB, where I actually get exposed to some of the other bloggers in our community. I guess I dislike that part of the community, where it feels like each is in its own little pocket, and expansion and reaching others can be difficult (at least in my opinion).

I feel pretty well connected to the microcosm community that exists for the subjects we connect on, which is great. Everyone is so supportive, and I think there really is a great bond that is created when there’s something that we all share in common. On the other hand, if there is a slight disconnect, then suddenly the gulf can feel pretty wide. Especially if there’s a trend catching on that you’re not into. That’s alright though, I don’t think the community is something you’re meant to connect to 100% of the time, just having the community and being a part of something is already a huge pro.

I guess I don’t have any huge comments on changes since I’ve joined, but it’s been a pleasure to meet you all and get to see what others love blogging about in return. I love that generally the community is moving much more towards an awareness of mental health, and the support that I’ve seen for people who are burning out (let’s face it, it’s been a long few years), and for those who are putting too much pressure on themselves has truly been heartwarming for me to see.

How do you all feel about the community? Are there more pros or cons? Anything you’d like to see changed? Please let me know in the comments below!