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
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
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
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
HER PERFECT LIFE | Hank Phillippi Ryan 09.14.2021 | Forge Books Rating: 3/5 stars Everyone knows the beloved television reporter Lily Atwood. She has fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created #PerfectLily. What they don’t know is that she has a life-changing secret. Her own anonymous source who … Continue reading Book Review: Her Perfect Life
SEED | Ania Ahlborn 07.17.2021 | 47North Rating: 4/5 stars Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was just a boy with nothing but the clothes on his back and something horrific snapping at his heels. As he watched the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was … Continue reading Book Review: Seed
RAZORBLADE TEARS | S.A. Cosby 07.06.2021 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for justice. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not as much as a speeding ticket in all that time. When the cops show up at his door … Continue reading Book Review: Razorblade Tears
NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH | Cassandra Khaw 10.19.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundation resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It’s the perfect wedding venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends. A … Continue reading Book Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
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