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Waif

Samantha Kolesnik

Start date: November 1, 2024

Finish date: November 30, 2024

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Nov 01, 2024 Pisces51 rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I am re-posting this review for the Group Read "Waif" for November 2024 [SPLATTERPUNK BOOK CLUB]

THE WAIF [2021] By Samantha Kolesnik
My Review 3.5 Stars

“The Waif” [2021] is one of two designated Group Reads on the Splatterpunk Book Club for the month of November.

Samantha Kolesnik is a new-to-me author, and I read that she is in fact an “award-winning fiction author, filmmaker, and film festival programmer”. That was a mouthful. She is best known for her two books “True Crime” [2020] and “The Wai ...more

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Nov 02, 2024 Charlene (Char)🍁☕️📚 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was a quick read, it was selected for my November read. This book was about a woman named “Angie”, we follow her story in a not so happy marriage and dealing with the inner dialogue of a woman questioning her self and self worth. She has a chance encounter with a man and this awakens the hidden desires she had and how she would very much like to act on them. This book explores the seedy world of porn and botched surgery. An interesting read nonetheless.

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Dec 12, 2022 Dawn rated it really liked it

Wow, what a breath of fresh horror air; I loved the unique perspective that led down a crazy path I never saw coming. A bit of strange editing (no spoiler here promise) in the last third is the only reason for my 4 instead of a 5. I will definitely be reading more of this author’s work!

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Feb 02, 2023 Betsy rated it really liked it

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Wow. This was my first book of Kolesnik & I want more. This is not for the faint of heart. In 100 pages she packs a punch straight into your sternum. Angie is…dissatisfied. She doesn’t like her abusive husband & one night, after a fight, she drives to a store. She “meets” a guy she immediately fixates on & follows him home. All the guy wanted to know was where the marshmallows were.

She leads her husband to believe that maybe something happened & he makes her tell him ...more

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