If you are looking for the perfect book to add to your list of Halloween & spooky season reads, look no further. This is the one. Keep reading to find out more, but no need to beware—I won’t be dropping any spoilers here. This is one you have to experience for yourself. I seriously cannot…
It’s time for some mini book reviews! These aren’t as long and deeply detailed as some of my full-length reviews where I basically just rave (orrr sometimes rant), but I still have things to say! Let’s think of these as the puppy version of reviews whereas the individuals are the full grown dogs. I don’t…
Ready Player One is a pretty popular (okay, that’s the understatement of the year—it’s hugely popular) dystopian sci-fi novel by Ernest Cline. The book is set in the year 2045, in a world in which many of the problems we are already starting to see today have come to a head—overcrowding/overpopulation, poverty, food shortages, gas…
Eep. I have some thoughts about this one. Emma in the Night is a psychological thriller by Wendy Walker that centers on the disappearance of Cass and Emma Tanner. Three years ago, the two sisters both mysteriously disappeared. Now, Cass shows back up without Emma telling a story about the two sisters being held against…
Paul Tremblay has an impeccable talent for blending difficult real life situations with the paranormal in a way that makes you question whether you’re more afraid of the unknown or of the horrible acts that human beings commit against each other, and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock is another excellent display of that skill. This novel…
With the overwhelming success of the Netflix series Stranger Things and the return of Stephen King’s It to theaters with the children’s storyline bumped forward by nearly thirty years, the 80s are having another major moment in horror—and My Best Friend’s Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix, is no exception. This horror novel has been on my…
The Hearts We Sold, by Emily Lloyd-Jones, was actually the book I received in the August OwlCrate, and with all the deals with demons, supernatural creatures, and otherworldly circumstances, this book was perfect for the August theme of “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. This young adult urban fantasy novel is about Dee Moreno, a young…
Burning is a YA supernatural thriller written by Danielle Rollins, who you may also know as Danielle Vega, author of The Merciless series and Survive the Night. Burning tells the tale of Angela, a young woman doing her time at a juvenile correction facility, with her sights set on getting out and seeing her little…
Strap in, y’all. I can already tell this is going to be a long one. I recently finished reading Eliza and Her Monsters, a contemporary YA novel by Francesca Zappia. Eliza and Her Monsters centers on the titular character of Eliza. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the creator of the famous webcomic Monstrous Seas, with millions…
Please be forewarned, the following review does contain spoilers. Please also be aware that this novel and this review mention several subjects which may be triggering to many readers, including, but not limited to, suicide and sexual assault. Much like her previous novel, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins’s new novel, Into the Water,…