Franny is a lonely schoolgirl with a permanently runny nose who befriends a convenience store robber that transforms into a giant bug for shooting a kid during his botched robbery. The two become unlikely friends and go on the lam. A giant bug… what??!
Amanda and Ed’s lives are going great until, wouldn’t ya know it, she goes and gets possessed by a demon! Now their marriage is going to pot and it’s all the demon’s fault! Time for some magic shampoo to save the day - but is it too late?!/1,
It’s the height of the Vietnam war and Nick Fury has gotten himself captured by the Vietcong. Fury being Fury, he knows all about the CIA’s massive drug-smuggling operation and they can’t afford for that knowledge to potentially leak. The CIA needs a mindless, efficient killing machine to take him out, just in case - who else but Frank Castle? Time for him to… Get Fury!
With Germany’s surrender in May 1945, the war was over for some of the Allied soldiers in Europe who returned home. Like Ralph’s dad, who was physically maimed in a flamethrower attack, but also mentally broken - what we call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder today and was called shell shock at the time. And though the family unit is restored, the experiences of war have changed Ralph’s dad - forever.
Jacob Finch Bonner, a once promising novelist whose career has now flatlined, is resigned to being a humble writing teacher. Then he meets a cocky student convinced that he has a can’t-fail novelistic plot that’ll make him rich and famous. Jake reads a fragment of the novel but hears the plot in full during their only one-to-one. Years pass, and Jake learns that his student never did write his incredible novel - because he died mere months after telling Jake the full story. Jake decides to realise his student’s plot but without crediting him - which does in fact finally make Jake a bestselling author. Except now he’s getting messages from a mysterious person online threatening to expose Jake’s theft to the world. Who is this person and how do they know his secret? The plot unfolds…
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book and been at a total loss as to describe what the story was or who any of the characters were, but that’s entirely the case with Cain’s Jawbone!
