It’s a gift.

Odd circular weathered metal object. So what do you think? Bronze Age? Mesopotamia? Actually Egyptian; this decade. Has nothing to do with this post really. Simply found it interesting. Although there is a weathered vintage locket that is more than just an accessory to the tale.(©image)

Wanna to experience a haunting for Halloween, but no haunted hotel will accept the dog and cat? 

Well, here you go: an alternative. Just as chilling, but cheaper and your pets won’t punish you when you get back for even temporarily abandoning them….not exactly the kinda scare you were after.

Turn down the heat (or up the AC), pick up a flashlight after dimming the house lights (but don’t dare sit near a mirror or uncovered window), grab a seriously thick blanket (You’ll need it for pulling it close and up to your chin as you shiver).

Ready?

Ordinary house creaks and groans will startle and creep you out while reading Carrie Rubin’s newest chiller: The Bone Elixir. 

Dr. Ben Orvis, now in orthopedic surgery residency, just can’t get a break…well, he does, but …I’ll break it to you, his medical specialty is both coincidental and ironic with the title…Hard to believe, but even residents do have a life – a non-hospital life…though a scientific logical mind is always on call….and in this novel, there’s some serious callings for help going on – help only he can diagnose and give.

A haunting tale carefully crafted and told with expertise. Fascinating, believable character development with a plot that keeps you turning the pages faster and faster and faster …(and hoping that your dog is only restless because of the wind…not because well, dark things know when a mind is open to possibilities of things people always swear are “just your imagination”…)

Sometimes there’s a sense that something’s off, but you just can’t put a finger on it..like the town’s book store owner’s reaction to Ben in the novel. Just can’t figure out where it’s going. © image)

While this is the third Benjamin Orvis book in the scary medical thriller series (each title is completely independent and a stand alone novel), this is the one that definitely will spook even you before you get halfway through. 

Stephen King watch out.

So stop shivering about holiday gift lists and all those clogged container ships stuck at the port holding what you thought would be on the shelves. GET AND GIVE THIS BOOK INSTEAD.

It is too perfect for Christmas: takes place in December. Who doesn’t dream of spending time during the holidays in a vintage Massachusetts Inn? That’s the setting. (Cue the jingle bells and odd behavior….)

Besides it begins with Ben being gifted with a strange inheritance from an aunt he never even knew about…and wraps up with, well, as Ben realizes, so many gifts no one ever expected… One of his yet to be unwrapped in the future if I read the book’s last line correctly..(if he can just keep from being slayed. Always a possibility with this author….)

Spooky: The Bone Elixir couldn’t have chosen a better time to arrive. 

Had to spill on this thrill

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Former WordPress blogger and physician Carrie Rubin’s website here

Her books on Amazon here.

The Bone Elixir with reviews on GoodReads.com here.

Production note:

A couple of possible gift book recommendations to follow…eventually

Reading some books, the current excuse for MIA blog posts and comment responses.

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