#edgar cantero

[clockwork-reads]

Because HBO's Velma is atrocious, may I recommend Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids? It's a love letter to Scooby-Doo with a believable lesbian romance, Hanna-Barbera shenanigans, and all the fun stuff you would expect in a book with the premise of "Scooby-Doo but for adults". And no bullshit shoehorned in to make you angry.

Also the covers are dope.

#bookblr #scooby doo #hbo velma #meddling kids #edgar cantero

[hecallsmesoftly]

I re-read ‘Meddling Kids’ by Edgar Cantero recently, which inspired me to do some darker themed Scooby Doo art, and of course I had to do my absolute fashion icon Daphne. I had this idea in my head about how the gang might deal with possession, so possessed daphne falling through the void of her own mind spawned and became this! I’m pleased with it!

#scooby doo #daphne blake #digital illustration #digital art #dark #eldritch #meddling kids #edgar cantero #eldritch horror

[quotes-and-recs]

"Fuck it. World's for the living."

-Kerri Hollis, Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

#meddling kids #kerri hollis #edgar cantero #scooby doo #quote #my post #book quotes #tw swearing

[tidepoolalgae]

#hyperspecific meme for myself #all I want to do is reread fsjfdhskjhsdgk #AND I gotta check out the author's other books too omg #meddling kids #edgar cantero

[wordsthatmattered]

No book is dangerous in and of itself, you know. But historically, reading a book in the wrong way has led to terrible consequences.

- Meddling Kids

#Meddling Kids #edgar cantero #book quotes #quotes #reading #wordsthatmattered

[youngloveleroy]

"I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"

Scooby Boo meets Cthulhu. Andi is a lesbian. There's a ghost/hallucination, I've heard.

I'm loving this so far.

#SheSamReads #Meddling Kids #Edgar Cantero #book #books #fiction #horror #Mystery

[bad-bean]

Nostalgic horror comedy? yes, please!

#meddlingkids #edgar cantero #books and reading #scooby doo

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

#happy gemini season #i know it’s from days ago but i’m still thinking abt this tweet #edgar cantero #canteroverse #wade talks #gemini #gemini season #astrology

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Heading to the beach in a few days and will take a book with me (that I probably won't end up reading, I just like to have the option)

I have it narrowed down to two

#meddling kids #edgar cantero #radio silence #alice oseman

[averagemrfox]

Ayoooo there it is

#meddling kids #edgar cantero #Andy x Kerri

[gurren-logout-book-reviews]

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

This book was really something. I don't know what I was expecting but I got like nothing right.

The book is about a group of teens who were basically Scooby-Doo and the recurrent trauma of their last case as they grow up. What they believed was a guy in a costume trying to find gold in a mine they begin to question as they grow up and deal with the consequences of that case.

The main characters are Kerri: a stand in for a combination of Velma and Daphne who could be argued is the most well adjusted. She still has severe PTSD and is the most reluctant to go back to the town they used to solve cases in. She also is the owner of the dog(s) that are the Scooby-Doo stand in and I'll get to the dogs trust me.

Nate: Kerri's cousin and starts the book in a mental health asylum. The "shaggy" stand in, he has hallucinations of Peter, their "leader" who grew up and overdosed. He talks with this Peter throughout the story and this version will show his darkest thoughts to him. He struggles with the guilt that the bad things happening now are his fault.

Peter: We are told he overdosed before the story began. After the last case he began staring in TV and movies and seemed to move the farthest away from the group. The "Fred" stand in. The most we really get from him is Nate's hallucinations of him, so it's hard to know what is him and what is Nate's idea of him.

Tim/Sean: Sean was the original dog and Tim is the one for this story. Tim is Sean's grandpuppy and is a good boy throughout the story. Their ending was...something.

Andy: the most original character of the group, she has had a very hard time since the last case. She joined the military, but left and has been a drifter since. She is very much a "Tom boy" but still identifies as a girl. She starts the story confronting the original "bad guy" from the case and gets everybody together to finally get closure. She is in love with Kerri.

Spoilers ahead (overview)

The story involves the remaining crew reopening their last case, all noting that there was more than what was said by the adults and are trying to get closure on a traumatic case. The "sleepy lake case" was supposedly closed when they caught a man in a suit claiming to be looking for treasure at the abandoned mansion. However, small details such as butchered deer and an attic with demonic writing and a copy of the necronomicon make them rethink the case being solved.

The story takes a while to get started, the first portion being mostly Andy and Kerri switching between loving each other and arguing about returning. After some convincing, Kerri agrees and they break Nate out of the hospital and drive across the county back to where they spent their summers.

Once they arrive they notice how decrepit the town is, and their memories don't match the gloom they are seeing now. As they reconnect with old friends and begin asking questions, they start finding weirder and scarier things, culminating into fish monsters attacking them out of no where.

They eventually figure out they need to go back to the mansion, they realize they are being watched while hundreds of the fish monsters storm in zombie style. Turns out there is necromancy, ancient entity summoning, and an attempt to kill everyone in the town.

They fight the "big bad", a zombie version of Peter, and then banish an eldrich horror. Also then the Dog talks cause apparently they have been possessed by an ancient being the whole time.

Conclusion

This book was such a mixed bag for me. I wanted really badly to enjoy it, but the story kept lulling then something out of left field would happen and kick start odd action sequences out of no where.

The book also has moment a where it tries to read like a script, with stage directions included. It does it way more as the book goes on and honestly it was just messy. I think it was done to try and be more Scooby-Doo but it was just annoying.

Over all it was ok. 2.5/5. The good parts were good, but the presentation and story beats leave a lot to be desired.

#meddling kids #edgar cantero #book review

[josiewrites]

Josie Reads: This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Edger Cantero

Summary from Amazon: 'In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one scrawny androgynous P.I. in a tank top and skimpy waistcoat. A.Z., as they are collectively known, are twin brother and sister. He's pure misanthropic logic, she's wild hedonistic creativity. The Kimreans have been locked in mortal battle since they were in utero...which is tricky because they, very literally, share one single body. That's right. One body, two pilots. The mystery and absurdity of how Kimrean functions, and how they subvert every plotline, twist, explosion, and gunshot--and confuse every cop, neckless thug, cartel boss, ninja, and femme fatale--in the book is pure Cantero magic.

Someone is murdering the sons of the ruthless drug cartel boss known as the Lyon in the biggest baddest town in California--San Carnal. The notorious A.Z. Kimrean must go to the sin-soaked, palm-tree-lined streets of San Carnal, infiltrate the Lyon's inner circle, and find out who is targeting his heirs, and while they are at it, rescue an undercover cop in too deep, deal with a plucky young stowaway, and stop a major gang war from engulfing California. They'll face every plot device and break every rule Elmore Leonard wrote before they can crack the case, if they don't kill each other (themselves) first.

This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us is a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry, that can only come from the mind of Edgar Cantero.'

This was so fun! The idea of chimeric twins (two people sharing one body) is such a unique take on the detective genre.

Adrian and Zooey are as opposite as you can get: he's all left brain and analytic, while she's right brained and wild. There's one scene where they're in a bar during the investigation, Adrian's trying to follow the potential path of the suspect, meanwhile Zooey's flirting and starting a bar fight.

What makes them interesting is that the writer plays it as a near perfect split of the body: literally half is Adrian's, and half is Zooey's. And it takes a combination of both to solve the case.

This book had me smiling and laughing out loud during points. I don't know how else to describe it than "it's a fun fucking read." Definite 4.5/5

#josiereads #edgar cantero #this body's not big enough for both of us

[doitsushine92]

you've heard of hallucination edward, well get ready for hallucination peter

#meddling kids #edgar cantero #peter manner #kerri rogers #nate rogers #andy rodriguez

[tidepoolalgae]

MEDDLING KIDS GOOD BOOK

#IT FEELS RIGHT IT FEELS GOOD #also andy and kerri being kinda ace and/or queerplatonic together? what a nice surprise! good for them!!! #meddling kids #edgar cantero #... not sure but it might be my fave fiction from this year.. solid 9/10 :]

[glitterfairy-21225]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Peter Manner/Nate Rogers Characters: Nate Rogers, Peter Manner, Kerri Hollis, Andrea "Andy" Rodriguez, Joey Krantz Additional Tags: Idiots in Love, Miscommunication, Lack of Communication, Boys In Love, Ghosts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Resurrection, Magic, Romance, Slow Burn, Queer Character, Queer Families, Angst and Humor, Childhood Trauma, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Small Fandom, Spoilers, Tags Contain Spoilers, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Hopeful Ending, as far as small fandoms and rare pairs go, im really screaming into the void here, but oh well, I Wrote This For Me, Everyone Is Gay, Everyone Needs A Hug, Gay Male Character, reading this you can see where i had notes for making their canon interactions gayer, Possibly Out of Character, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, the blyton summer detective club is that one childhood friend group, that all feel inexplicably different from other kids and so gravitate towards each other, and then they all grow up and turn out to be queer, You can't change my mind, You can pry this headcanon out of my cold dead hands, Obvious Handwaving, Rare Pairings, Rare Fandoms, Mutual Pining, human disaster Summary:

SPOILERS FOR THIS BOOK THAT'S BEEN OUT SINCE 2017!!!

In which Peter isn't a hallucination, and he's just a little bit (a lot a bit) in love with Nate, who still doesn't think he's real. It's a mess, but Nate's life has always been messy and cruel and painful. If only he had the power to make things different, make things better. But despite everything that remains unsaid between them, Peter ends up being the part of Nate's adulthood that hurts the least.

Yeah, this is gonna be a disaster.

#meddling kids #edgar cantero #nate rogers #peter manner #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own

[lynorlane]

Year End Book List

Well I was going to talk about the absolute best twelve books that I read this year, anticipating having to narrow it down as I do every year. Then I started looking through my list, and um, maybe the challenge will be finding twelve? Jeez. I refuse to believe that there weren’t 12 perfect-blow-me-out-of-the-water books that I could have read this past year, so I will accept that I apparently…

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#ann patchett #cse cooney #edgar cantero #i have some questions for you #margaret rogerson #martha wells #no one will come back for us #premee mohamed #quan barry #rebecca makkai #saint deaths daughter #sarafina el-badry nance #sorcery of thorns #starstruck #system collapse #these precious days #this bodys not big enough for both of us #we ride upon sticks