Just a girl and her books
THE WILD ONE | Colleen McKeegan 06.14.2022 | Harper Rating: 4/5 stars Amanda Brooks is a born-and-bred New Yorker with an envious life: she's in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is head-over-heels for her handsome, committed boyfriend. But Amanda's life isn't as picture perfect as it seems. For … Continue reading Book Review: The Wild One
HIDE | Kiersten White 05.24.2022 | Del Rey Rating: 4.5/5 stars The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that she can beat … Continue reading Book Review: Hide
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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