Just a girl and her books
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
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET | Catriona Ward 09.28.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4.5/5 stars! At the end of Needless Street, on the edge of the wild Washington woods, sits a boarded up house where a family of three resides. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside after what she did last time. A … Continue reading Book Review: The Last House on Needless Street
KILL HILL CARNAGE | Tim Meyer 07.15.2018 | Sinister Grin Press Rating: 4.5/5 stars In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Legends range from a family of inbred cannibals being responsible, to a masked psychopath with a butcher’s knife, … Continue reading Book Review: Kill Hill Carnage
GODDESS OF FILTH by V. Castro: One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It’s all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, … Continue reading Mini Reviews: Goddess of Filth & Tribesmen
THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND | David Sodergren 09.27.2018 | Independently Published Rating: 5/5 stars Ana Logan is trying to reconnect with her estranged sister, Rachel, on a holiday to Thailand. When they end up stranded on an island with no radio and no food, reconciliation turns into a desperate fight for survival. Hidden away on this … Continue reading Book Review: The Forgotten Island
FANTASTICLAND | Mike Bockoven 10.11.2016 | Skyhorse Rating: 4.5/5 stars Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!”. When hurricane Sadie ravages the Florida coast, it leaves the park isolated and filled with employees who find their situation anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors … Continue reading Book Review: FantasticLand
THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER | Darcy Coates 09.07.2021 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 4/5 stars Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. She can feel a presence invading her home. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. A dark figure looms in … Continue reading Book Review: The Haunting of Leigh Harker
THE WOODS ARE ALWAYS WATCHING | Stephanie Perkins 08.31.2021 | Penguin Teen Rating: 4/5 stars Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but they’ve always had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they want to have one final hangout to mark this milestone. They decide … Continue reading Book Review: The Woods Are Always Watching
THE DEEP | Nick Cutter 01.13.2015 | Gallery Books Rating: 4/5 stars A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget -- small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive. Their bodies forget how to function … Continue reading Book Review: The Deep
FAT CAMP | James Sabata 07.09.2018 | Independently Published Rating: 4/5 stars Since 1985, over 500 overweight teenagers have come to Camp Wašíču, looking to lose weight, gain self-confidence, and turn their lives around. Phillip McCraken arrives, weighing in at almost 400 pounds, but the baggage he carries from the past affects him much more … Continue reading Book Review: Fat Camp
