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Book Review: The Burning Season

THE BURNING SEASON | Alison Wisdom 07.05.22 | Harper Perennial Rating: 4/5 stars Rosemary has often felt like trouble, and now at thirty-two, her marriage to her college sweetheart, Paul, is crumbling. In a last-ditch attempt to restore it, she agrees to give herself over to a newly formed Christian sect in central Texas, run … Continue reading Book Review: The Burning Season →

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Book Review: Last Days

LAST DAYS | Adam Nevill 05.24.2012 | St. Martin’s Griffin Rating: 4/5 stars When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was … Continue reading Book Review: Last Days →

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Book Review: I’ll Be You

I’LL BE YOU | Janelle Brown 04.26.2022 | Random House Rating: 3.5/5 stars As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn’t even tell them apart and once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults, … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Be You →

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August TMR

I'm excited that the last month of summer has arrived bringing us just a bit closer to my absolute favorite season, fall. This also means I'm cramming as much summer horror into my possibilities stack right now! While I read horror all year long, there is something extra exciting about the summer horror season for … Continue reading August TMR →

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Book Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society

THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY | John Scalzi 03.15.2022 | Tor Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." … Continue reading Book Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society →

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July Wrap Up

July has officially left the room! I had such a great time reading all of the books in this stack! While I didn't have any 5 star reads this month, I ended up with 5 books that I rated 4.5 stars. I impressed myself with how well I kept up with reviews this month and … Continue reading July Wrap Up →

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Book Review: Off Season

OFF SEASON | Jack Ketchum 1980 | 47North 5/5 stars September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River—off season—awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting … Continue reading Book Review: Off Season →

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Book Review: Kill River

KILL RIVER | Cameron Roubique(Kill River #1)08.01.2015 | Independently PublishedRating: 3.5/5 stars In the summer of 1983, thirteen-year-old Cyndi and her three new-found friends Stacy, Zack, and Brad decide to sneak away from their summer camp in the middle of the night by rafting down the nearby rivers. After spending a tense night lost in … Continue reading Book Review: Kill River →

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Book Review: Cold as Hell

COLD AS HELL | Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle (Black Badge #1) 05.24.2022 | Blackstone Publishing Rating: 3/5 stars In the West, there are worse things to fear than bandits and outlaws. Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley's sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banishing them … Continue reading Book Review: Cold as Hell →

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Book Review: Things We Do In the Dark

THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK | Jennifer Hillier 07.19.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what … Continue reading Book Review: Things We Do In the Dark →

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