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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
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
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
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
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
THE SECOND HUSBAND | Kate White 06.28.2022 | Harper Rating: 3.5/5 stars Recovering from the unsolved murder of her first husband, Derrick, thirtysomething Emma Hawke has built a new life with Tom, a handsome, successful, and loving widower who finally makes her feel safe again. Then one day a police detective shows up at their … Continue reading Book Review: The Second Husband
THE COUNSELORS | Jessica Goodman05.31.2022 | Razorbill4.5/5 stars Sisters by choice. That’s how Goldie and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, define their friendship, which formed years ago at Camp Alpine Lake. This year, Goldie is back at camp as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and for Ava and Imo to arrive. With … Continue reading Book Review: The Counselors
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