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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Bless your Heart" by Lindy Ryan
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:20:28 +0100
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On 20/10/2024 05:02, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>   "Bless your Heart" by Lindy Ryan is the book.
> 
>      From, here on i am speaking of the Universe of the book
> which is a prize winner.
> 
>      Vampires, Zombies, and Ghouls are the myths but Strigoi are
> the reality behind the myths.  In a small town there is a funeral
> home run by the Evans Women. Among the normal dead they put
> down the restless dead, invariably hungry for life and they
> tear it from the bodies of the still living and spread the curse.
> 
>      This is the tale of the latest outbreak in a small West Texas
> town and the latest of the Evans women Luna, who is very special..
> We also have the tangled loves of the Evans women and the
> men who fruitlessly love them.
> 
>       Nothing better to read and would make a great manga,
> movie or anime.
>      A fast read in a slim hardcover, $28.00 USA from Minotaur
> books.
>      bliss

Thank you.  To be clear, is "Nothing better to read"
an endorsement, or is it a complaint?

The English language is so confusing. I hear that
the expression "Bless your heart" itself is liable
to mean "Drop dead".  Fittingly so, in this case.