Just a girl and her books
THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4.5) 12.06.2016 (first published February 2012) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Warning: Potential spoilers ahead Roland Deschain and his ka-tet Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy have returned to their journey toward the Dark Tower. After crossing the River Whye they realize that they will … Continue reading Book Review: The Wind Through The Keyhole
WIZARD and GLASS | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4) 05.03.2016 (first published November 1997) | Scribner Rating: 3/5 stars Warning: Potential series spoilers ahead Our Ka-tet of Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Oy have survived Blaine the Mono’s final crash. They find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, where a superflu … Continue reading Book Review: Wizard and Glass
THE WASTE LANDS | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3) 05.03.2016 (first published August 1991) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Warning: Potential series spoilers ahead Several months have passed since the events of THE DRAWING OF THE THREE. Roland has trained his Ka-tet members, Eddie and Susannah, to be gunslingers in their own right. Each … Continue reading Book Review: The Waste Lands
THE DRAWING OF THE THREE | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #2) 05.03.2016 (first published May 1987) | Scribner Rating: 4/5 stars Warning: Potential series spoilers ahead At the close of THE GUNSLINGER Roland Deschain learned his fate through a tarot card reading. He was told that he would encounter three individuals who would aid … Continue reading Book Review: The Drawing of the Three
THE GUNSLINGER | Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1) 05.03.2016 (first published 06.01.1982) | Scribner Rating: 3/5 stars Roland Deschain hails from a Gilead and a world that has been left on the brink of destruction. The last of his kind, Roland is known as a gunslinger. His one mission is to track the Man … Continue reading Book Review: The Gunslinger
NINTH HOUSE | Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern #1) 10.08.2019 | Flatiron Books Rating: 5/5 stars Yale’s freshman class just earned it’s most unlikeliest of members in the form of Galaxy “Alex” Stern. Hailing from Los Angeles, Alex was raised by a hippie mom who didn’t understand the strange things happening to her. Alex ultimately dropped … Continue reading Book Review: Ninth House
THE INSTITUTE | Stephen King 09.10.2019 | Scribner Rating: 4.5/5 stars On a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis a group of intruders enter the home of Luke Ellis. In the span of two minutes they murder Luke’s parents and drive away with him, drugged and unaware of his destination. Luke wakes up to a place … Continue reading Book Review: The Institute
THE GRAND DARK | Richard Kadrey 06.11.2019 | Harper Voyager Rating: 3.5/5 stars The Great War has ended. In its wake Lower Proszawa has turned to decadence, hedonism, and drugs to squash the underlying feelings of despair. They turn their backs on those who were injured saving their lives in order to avoid eye contact … Continue reading Book Review: The Grand Dark
LITTLE DARLINGS | Melanie Golding 04.30.2019 | Crooked Lane Books Rating: 4/5 stars Lauren Tranter has just gone through a complicated birth bringing her newborn twin sons, Morgan and Riley, into the world. When she experiences a weird encounter at the hospital, imagining there is a woman present trying to steal her babies, those around … Continue reading Book Review: Little Darlings
CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN | Molly Tanzer 11.13.2018 | John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books Rating: 4/5 stars Ellie West is a moonshine bootlegger living in a small town in Long Island, known as Amityville. Here she finds herself working to assist her family and send her brother to college through any means necessary. Fishing by … Continue reading Book Review: Creatures of Want & Ruin
