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Urban Legends Kindle Edition

by Yawatta Hosby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Gruesome murders, resembling urban legends, take place in a small college town. Wilk, Elena, and Wayne grow suspicious of their Urban Legends professor when their best friend, Savannah, is found dead in her dorm room with 'Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Lights?' written in blood on the mirror. Is Professor Stevens a deranged serial killer? Or just a creepy dude? They must find out the truth before they become the next victims.
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    154 pages
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    English
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  4. Publication date
    July 26, 2020
  5. File size
    3958 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DP1RFV2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dream Snatcher Press (July 26, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 26, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3958 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Yawatta Hosby

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Hello, I’m Yawatta Hosby. I reside in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. I enjoy connecting with other writers through blogging. With a desire to escape every day life, I create short stories, novellas, and novels. I’ve always had a fascination with psychology, so I like to focus on the inner-struggles within my characters. I’m an avid reader, favorite genres: mystery, suspense, horror, and women’s fiction.

My short stories have been featured in The Write Place At the Write Time online journal (2013), When the Lights Go Out anthology (2015), and Don't Open the Door anthology (2019).

If you want to talk about books, friend me on Goodreads. I love to hear from readers! If you want notifications of my new releases, follow me on Bookbub, Prolific Works, and/or subscribe to my newsletter. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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Natalie Freese
4.0 out of 5 stars scary and a little ode to horror story fun
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020
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Though this book is set in a fictional contemporary college town and other than everyone having cell phones it was very easy to picture this novel as an '8Os slasher film. The main reason I didn't give it 5 stars is for I am going to say next, there are 7+ main characters to keep track of. And when they are all partner swapping and then get the professor involved there is a lot of remembering who was with who and were they where they said they were when trying to piece together who is using the professors lessons as fodder for the murders. Prof. and Author Stevens teaches a Urban Legends class (where was this when I was in college?) and either he is using it as a warning or a sick in the head student is just following orders. Also you will need to bury the fact this campus would be on lock down and everyone questioned over and over. Other than those little things enjoy the sicko who is taking a lot of time out of his (or her's) day to plan these murders as close to the legend as possible.
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Zombie Inkpot
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun horror
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020
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This is a very entertaining book about the lengths someone will go to in order to research a book.
The kills are based on urban legends and are very gory.
The characters are interesting, but I would have liked a bit more depth to their motivations to make the story sing.
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Priscilla Bettis
4.0 out of 5 stars Slasher Story, Scary and "Fun" to Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020
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This is a serial killer novella with lots of blood and scares. It’s also contemporary and New Adult.

The story intertwines three male characters with W names and two of them have the same pen name. It was really fun trying to figure out who was the bad guy.

I had to work a little to keep the W’s straight, and I didn’t get a strong sense of setting. These are minor things, though. The main negative for me was that there are so many points of view for such a short book that it was hard to get deep into the psyche of any one character.

Hosby can write gory scenes. I cringed a few times, eek! Overall Urban Legends an exciting crime-horror story. Four fun stars.
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Felicia or Thomas
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read for lovers of mystery, horror, and urban legends.
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
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Urban Legends mixes elements of murder mysteries and slasher movies. A black gloved killer is using urban legends as a blue print to stalk college students. I enjoyed this novel and look forward to Hosby's next book.
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DJM
3.0 out of 5 stars College slasher story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2020
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Urban Legends is set in small college, where students attending Professor Steven's writing classes, currently working on writing horror stories using ideas derived from murders which have found their way into modern-day folklore, come across a series of murders bearing close resemblance to murders discussed in class.

The various murder methods have been thoroughly researched and used to good effect in this story, and had me wondering who would do such a thing? It is obviously the work of a writer because he is noting what he can see, and how the murder makes him feel as he executes it. However, as all the students are aspiring writers, and the professor is also a published author, there are lots of suspects for the completely inept detectives assigned to the cases to filter.

I thought the plot worked, and that it was an entertaining and not-too-scary read, with a few red herrings to keep the reader off balance. For me though, I would have liked to have known more about the killer's motivations beyond 'research', and understood any satisfaction derived from the killings, something which I think would have added to the tension in this story.
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SH
5.0 out of 5 stars Twisty plot
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2020
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Blimey! I loved the premise of this one. When a horror manuscript is rejected, a college student sets out to find out what horror is really like. Or does he? (The rejection letter is hilarious). There are plenty of twists and turns - the killer could be absolutely anyone. I thought it's him... no it's her... no it's him. What I especially enjoyed were the rehashing of those horror stories we all heard when we were young. What is that noise on the roof of my car?! Written in keeping with the genre as a short horror, gruesome threads with a bit of tongue in cheek humour.
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