Just a girl and her books
BONE WHITE | Ronald Malfi 07.25.2017 | Kensington Publishing Corporation Rating: 5/5 stars Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to the graves of his victims in remote Dread’s Hand, Alaska. This is the last place Paul’s twin brother, Danny, was seen before he went missing a year ago. … Continue reading Book Review: Bone White
THE WINTER PEOPLE | Jennifer McMahon 02.11.2014 | Anchor Rating: 4/5 stars West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious of that is of Sara Harrison Shea who was found dead in 1908 in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of … Continue reading Book Review: The Winter People
MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW | Stephen Graham Jones (Indian Lake Trilogy #1) 08.31.2021 | Saga Press Rating: 4/5 stars Jade Daniels loves slasher movies. They comfort her from the realities of her life. She is an angry, half-Indian outcast living with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing … Continue reading Book Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw
THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS | Chuck Wendig 07.20.2021 | Del Rey Books Rating: 5/5 stars Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father. He’s never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Accidents
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
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
THE REVELATION | Bentley Little 12.01.2014 | Cemetery Dance Publications Rating: 4/5 stars Divine prophecy. Holy terror. Strange things are happening in the small town of Randall, Arizona. The local minister has vanished and his church has been defiled by blasphemous obscenities scrawled in blood. A crazed woman in her eighties becomes pregnant. Herds of … Continue reading Book Review: The Revelation
THE SHUDDERING | Ania Ahlborn 06.18.2013 | 47North Rating: 4.5/5 stars Ryan Adler and his twin sister, Jane, spent their happiest childhood days at their parent’s mountain Colorado cabin, until divorce tore their family apart. Now, with the house about to be sold, the Adler twins have arranged a gathering with their closest friends for … Continue reading Book Review: The Shuddering
COLD MOON OVER BABYLON | Michael McDowell 02.24.2015 | Valancourt Books (first published 1980) Rating: 4/5 stars Babylon is a sleepy Southern town in the heart of Florida filled with throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swamps. Margaret Larkin has been robbed of her innocence and her life. Her body has been found shortly after she fails … Continue reading Book Review: Cold Moon Over Babylon
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