Just a girl and her books
MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW | Stephen Graham Jones (Indian Lake Trilogy #1) 08.31.2021 | Saga Press Rating: 4/5 stars Jade Daniels loves slasher movies. They comfort her from the realities of her life. She is an angry, half-Indian outcast living with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing … Continue reading Book Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw
The last month of the year is officially upon us, which means my reading mood is a frantic hustle to read all the things I said I was going to read in 2021 and also read all the holiday-themed horror and crime fiction possible. Yeah, we can all collectively laugh at how massive my stack … Continue reading December TBR!
THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS | Chuck Wendig 07.20.2021 | Del Rey Books Rating: 5/5 stars Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father. He’s never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Accidents
Read: The Push by Ashley Audrain (🎧) 3.5⭐ Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco 5⭐ Reprieve by James Han Mattson 4⭐ Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell (🎧) 3⭐ The Elementals by Michael McDowell 4⭐ Danse Macabre by Stephen King (🎧) 4⭐ Clown in A Cornfield by Adam Cesare 5⭐ Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala … Continue reading November Wrap Up
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD by Adam Cesare 08.25.2020 | Harper Collins Rating: 5/5 stars Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. What they don’t know is that since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are … Continue reading Book Review: Clown in A Cornfield
WHEN THE RECKONING COMES | LaTanya McQueen 08.03.2021 | Harper Perennial Rating: 4.5/5 stars More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. She’s distanced herself from everything in her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; … Continue reading Book Review: When the Reckoning Comes
REPRIEVE | James Han Mattson 10.05.2021 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, boobytraps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If their group can endure these horrors without shouting … Continue reading Book Review: Reprieve
THE MISSING HOURS by Julia Dahl: Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU’s freshman class. After a traumatic night out that leaves Claudia unable to remember what happened she goes missing. I picked this one up on a whim just looking for … Continue reading Mini Reviews: The Missing Hours, The Push, & Invisible Girl
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES | Ray Bradbury 1962 | Simon & Schuster Rating: 4/5 stars The show is about to begin. Coogar & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween … Continue reading Book Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes
PETRIFIED WOMEN | Jeremy Ray 05.14.2021 | Infinite Ray Publishing Rating: 4.5/5 stars Harley has the perfect boyfriend. She’s confident that Aiden’s a keeper. He's a bit eccentric and his wood carving hobby is a little odd. His need for isolation while he carves his life-size female figurines is strange. And maybe his obsession with … Continue reading Book Review: Petrified Women
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