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Originally Posted by KentE
I think you made a good choice of thread, although it's not really apparent from the book blurb included. And I sympathize with your quandary! I read more mystery than horror, and I'm frequently unhappy when a "mystery" book unexpectedly injects supernatural elements, while Hitchcock style horror doesn't disturb me even if not forewarned... There are some series that I really enjoy that intermix genres to a description-defying extent. (Is that hard-boiled detective novel involving an alien species Sci-Fi or mystery? What about the Jewish time-traveliing detective? Or the police procedural where the protagonist just happens to be a werewolf? Or my surprise that the bookstore now has an entire section for Paranormal Romance....)
KentE
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Thanks, Kent. I would put the alien species detective novel in the SF thread for the same reasons: The mystery-loving reader may not want to read SF, but the SF-loving reader probably doesn't care if it is a mystery. Also, I am finding the publishers/authors miscategorize quite a bit, so I try to go mainly by the description but sometimes get fooled even then. I also look at the reviews to see what the reviewers say about the type of book it is.
This is the problem with doing genre-specific threads when there are crossovers but wanting to avoid double posting.