The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman, comes out in just over one month and is full of summer camp killer vibes, interesting characters that you can’t quite pin down, and a twisted mystery that will keep you guessing. The Counselors follows junior camp counselor, Goldie, an eighteen-year-old who has been affiliated with Camp Alpine Lake for nearly…
It may only be April, but vacation season will be upon us soon. While you start planning your summer trip, let’s take a quick look at some of the best worst-case-scenario vacation books on my shelf. Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Echo was one of my most recent reads after Johnathan surprised me with a copy…
Burden Falls was a fun mix between traditional thriller and supernatural. Penguin Teen describes it as “Riverdale meets The Haunting of Hill House”, which I thought was a really fitting description, because as I was reading it, I was getting major Riverdale vibes, if Riverdale had a little more of a New England-y, old money, old families type vibe. Burden Falls follows Ava,…
The film Things Heard and Seen, starring Amanda Seyfried and Natalia Dyer and directed by Sheri Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, premiered on Netflix recently, and while a lot of people have watched it and I see people talking about it, something I have yet to see many reviews acknowledge is the fact that the film is actually based on a novel, the literary thriller All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. I think it’s worth acknowledging, however, and worth delving into, because the novel is a very beautifully written, expansive work, and the movie—while faithful in many ways—is an interesting and, at times, successful interpretation of the original work.
Alright, we’re going to do this, it’s time for another book review. Let’s just roll with it. I have no preamble that anyone really wants to hear, so let’s just hop right in. The Hunting Party is a murder mystery thriller by Lucy Foley published in December of 2018. And let me tell you, I…
The Dead Girls Club, by Damien Angelica Waters, is a supernatural thriller that hits shelves December 10th, 2019. The Dead Girls Club follows Heather, who kicks things off the story by receiving a mysterious envelope which contains one half of one of those super-popular-in-the-90s “best friends forever” broken heart necklaces. The problem is, it’s her…
Two Can Keep a Secret is another teen murder mystery from the author of One of Us Is Lying, which was a really fun Breakfast Club meets Gossip Girl romp, if one of the members of the Breakfast Club ended up dead during detention. In Two Can Keep a Secret, we’re looking at more of…
Baby Teeth caught my attention months ago when I saw its simplistic yet powerful red and white cover floating around over on bookstagram, and when I found out what it was about, I was even more intrigued. So when this book surfaced in my own home (seriously, shout-out to my boyfriend for letting me read…
Today I’m going to be talking about a super hyped YA novel just released in May of this year, in addition to a fun YA slasher (that’s right, I used fun and slasher together) by Stephanie Perkins, author of the popular Anna and the French Kiss series. That’s right, today is a good old-fashioned two-for-one.…
If you’ve been floating around the bookish community over the past few months, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve already heard of Bonfire. But in case you haven’t, let’s recap: Bonfire is a suspense/psychological thriller novel by Krysten Ritter, who, prior to penning this novel, was best known for being an actress in shows like…