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Margaret and Casey's father is doing some experiments in the basement and he tells them not to go down there but of course when he leaves the basement they go down there,that's when they meet all his weird plants that is down there like a real live breathing tree and some other really cool plants.But that's when the experiments are starting to get a little too far and their dad is starting to do a lot of weird things like sprouts are coming from his head and he is eating plant food...

What I like about the book is the weirdness because whenever there is a book and it has the craziest cover ever it's gotta be mine when I've got the money.Because this book has a really weird cover I mean like who usually sees books with a green hand coming from a door with all these vines rowing all over it!This book is a scary book,but I don't think it is scary enough.This book is like "You Can't Scare Me!" but with leafy green monsters instead of mud monsters.

I’ve decided I’m going to begin stalking authors. Not in a “sneak around outside their homes, hide in the bushes, follow them to their local coffee shop and become this like them in a Single White Female” kind of way, but in “get over your damn shyness and email them” already kind of way. I need to get started now because I’ll have a box of homework by the 20^th and severely less time (especially if they keep me on for a few more weeks with the bookie job).

And the first author I plan on stalking?

Chelsea Cain.*

Ms. Cain has gone from writing funny memoirs and a satirical take on Nancy Drew to writing Heart Sick which contains a serial killer that sounds like she could take on Hannibal in the twisted department.

From Minotaur:

Portland Detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she caught him. Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, then she released him, and turned herself in. Now Gretchen is locked away, while Archie is in a prison of another kind—addicted to pain killers and powerless to erase those ten days from his mind.He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying he wants her to confess the whereabouts of more of her victims, but he knows the truth is that he just can’t stay away.

When another killer begins snatching teenage girls, Archie knows that he has to pull himself together and investigate the murders. Newspaper reporter Susan Ward begins following Archie’s investigation, sparking a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow Archie can free himself from Gretchen once and for all.

Intrigued? I am. Being from the Northwest, with our preponderance of serial killers, the idea of a female serial killer pulling the strings of some other character is fascinating to me. So to is the idea that this all takes place in Portland where the “keep Portland weird” culture—if done right—could practically be another character. But if that’s not enough, look at the galleys** (which sparked my stalking needs weeks ago)!

Way to push me over edge of want to need. I must find Chelsea Cain and fast.

*Here’s hoping she compulsively googles her name and contacts me, thus making this whole stalking thing that much easier.

**Pictures shamelessly stolen from Super Librarian whom I’m jealous of because she has a copy.