I did some more walking and attempted some grocery shopping, but keeping things in stock is not really Safeway’s strong point so I went home and died in a pit all day.

Read: Hell’s Heroes (Darren Shan): The end! Does everybody die? Probably you can guess, since not much about this series was very surprising. (Apparently that’s the kind of books my new post-pandemic brain can handle.) But if I ever wondered why humans are so messed up, this series pretty much answers the question. It’s all about horrible monsters torturing and murdering humans, and the protagonists becoming monstrous (sometimes figuratively) to fight them, and no one bats an eye at it being labelled a kids’ book, but if an unclothed human was described in as much detail as one of the monsters, or any sexual act described in as much detail as one of the violent acts, the book would get chucked into the 18+ bin immediately.

Read: Mars Red vol 1 (Bun-O Fujisawa, KarakaraKemuri): Taishō (1920s) secret government vampires, and the intrepid girl reporters who will get into trouble trying to find them.

Words: Check.