Just a girl and her books
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
I had good intentions to get this stack posted up earlier in the month, but it always seems I don't get around to them until the 2nd week of the month. So far my reading for November is going pretty slow. I managed to read less than 100 pages over the last 4 days, which … Continue reading November TBR!
BURNT OFFERINGS | Robert Marasco 1973 | Valancourt Books Rating: 5/5 stars Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment. When they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to … Continue reading Book Review: Burnt Offerings
Read:Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Shaw 4⭐️The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward 4.5⭐️When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen (🎧) 4.5⭐️Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 4⭐️Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (🎧) 4.5⭐️The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 5⭐️Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray 4.5⭐️Thinner by Stephen King … Continue reading October Wrap Up
SURVIVE THE NIGHT | Riley Sager 06.29.2021 | Dutton Rating: 3/5 stars It’s November 1991. George H.W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is … Continue reading Book Review: Survive the Night
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