Morning Friends! How are all of you this Monday morning? I am trying to get over my case of the Mondays by sharing Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero with all of you! This book sounds so cool and is described as being a mix of Scooby Doo and The Hardy Boys! It releases on July 11th, but is available for preorder now! I will leave the synopsis below for you all to check out! 📖• • Thank you so much to @doubledaybooks for sending this one my way! 🖤• • 🕵🏻SYNOPSIS👻• With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn. . 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven’t seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Keri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she’s got Sean, an excitable Weimeraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arhkam, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter’s been dead for years. . The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It’s their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world. 👻. #meddlingkids #edgarcantero #doubledaybooks #onmytbr #scoobydoo #daphne #velma #bookishfunkostack

New #bookmail has me all 😍 Any fellow #ScoobyDoo fans out there? I grew up watching Scooby & the gang, so I'm sooo excited for this one! 🤓 MEDDLING KIDS by Edgar Cantero releases July 11th! . ✨Gorgeous woodmark by @inkandwonder.designs! New designs have been listed for preorder recently, so be sure to check them out! Using code 'LISA10' will save you 10%! ______________________________________________________ 📖Synopsis: For fans of John Dies at the End and Welcome to Night Vale comes a tour de force of horror, humor, and H.P. Lovecraft. The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. Scooby Doo and the gang never had to do this! . 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Kerri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she's got Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arhkam, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter's been dead for years. . The time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began in 1977. This time, it better not be a man in a mask. The real monsters are waiting. . With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids taps into our shared nostalgia for the books and cartoons we grew up with, and delivers an exuberant, eclectic, and highly entertaining celebration of horror, life, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn. ______________________________________________________ #meddlingkids #edgarcantero @doubledaybooks

“Mr. Knox (so he introduced himself) epitomizes the anachronistic Virginian high class I told you about when describing Glew: Nothing about him belongs to this era—not his car, not his hair, not his handshake, nor his accent (says Niamh). However, framed in the doorway of Axton House, he fit perfectly. Had he rung the doorbell of my old apartment, I would have mistaken him for a time traveler.” x “A house with supernatural enhancements, as I think Edith Wharton put it.” x “I never understood that penchant among treasure keepers and ancient civilizations of putting the golden idol on an altar in an empty room. It's like telling Indiana Jones, ‘Hi, here's our most prized possession, ready for you to steal.” x “A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing...raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets—is that too crazy? DR.BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.” x Edgar Cantero’s first book in english, epistoletory (told in transcripts, letters, journal entries, video/audio recordings, and other documents) it tells the story of A who, after inheriting an old house from a long lost relative, sets out to find out the secrets of both it and the long lost relative. With lessons on ciphers and codes along the way, the revelations about the house, relative and his group of friends were Very interesing. Cantero did a really nice job of setting up the atmosphere of the old (almost ancient seeming) house, the cluttered dusty labyrinth A and his housemate Niamh can get lost in. And there’s a hedge maze!! (the house, just the descriptions of it alone) reminded me of the houses in Ready or Not and Knives Out. The ending, which i wasn’t expecting, reminded me of The Wicked and the Divine. I wana get all Cantero’s books. Sigh. #WhatIRead #Bookstagram #LibraryBook #EdgarCantero #TheSupernaturalEnhancements https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0cWNguyOY/?utm_medium=tumblr

“Go ahead, take your shoes off, Let's do a pajama party like the old times. We'll build a pillow fort and ask the Magic Eight Ball who will we marry.’ ‘We never did that,’ Andy complained, undoing her boots. ‘You wouldn't do it; it's too unscientific. Instead you tried to explain genetics to me to determine who we should marry to spawn superdetectives.” x “The motel slept in silence, all the guests probably busy counting stolen money or chopping up corpses in the bathtub.” x “Andy was sure there was a company in England, possibly founded by a society of African explorers in the Victorian era, a bunch of Colonel Mustards with pith helmets and friendly mutton chops, who manufactured this high-tier field equipment especially for kids, aware that young explorers like Kerri must not be patronized with cheap plastic toys, but be offered the best durable tools to encourage their vocation, because those curious children shall be the great discoverers of tomorrow.” x “Looks like the place of an old lady who never got married.’ ‘That's Puritan for 'witch,' Nate said, and he knocked again.” x “Pierce was the name she had just given to the pickax, the tool-slash-accessory-slash-slasher weapon that had become her dearest item in their arsenal.” x read this one at the suggestion of an ex-coworker, and whoo boy - glad I finally did. A group of kids who solved mysteries while on vacations a decade ago are now grown up and have come back to make sure their final case is Closed. Set in the 1990, Cantero got the tone and atmostphere of the time right (A Bunch of good oneliners, and at one point a character takes a pictures and shakes it to develop because it’s a polaroid (omg nostalgia)) The cover was cool, and when going back to the library to get his first english language book The Supernatural Enhancements (that cover too omg) I also picked up his third book This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us - so excited to dive into both! (the filter I used for this post was #LoFi, which i think I super appropriate!😆) #WhatIRead #Bookstagram #LibraryBooks #EdgarCantero #Meddling Kids #HorrorComedy #lofifilter #90s #90sNostalgia @oconomowoclibrary @waukeshalibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ0kIoUu9GP/?utm_medium=tumblr

Story of my life.😫 New book to read while I get Trixie serviced. Pretty excited about this one. #thisbodysnotbigenoughforthebothofus #edgarcantero #theythem (at Bob Bell Chevrolet of BelAir) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwFU7vMo5c/?utm_medium=tumblr

Picked up #meddlingkids today while in #Belfast , just from the synopsis it's gonna get spooky. #edgarcantero #titanbooks #spooky https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UVNTghj8O/?igshid=z7sdqjyjdufw

So far, this is amazing. Wowzers! #veryscoobydoo #meddlingkids #bookrecommendations #edgarcantero #bookstagram #horror (at The Green Hand) https://www.instagram.com/msouliere/p/BwX-ar1noUe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16sg3dmlkyanm

Indigo loved us today! :') #yahayabaruwa #edgarcantero #neilgaiman #ooly #indigo #books #reading (at Indigo Burlington Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvpaC6NAc-D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tc7o290ee8pa