Just a girl and her books
DEAD SILENCE | S.A. Barnes 02.08.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - made obsolete - when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire convinces her team to investigate. What they find … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Silence
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
DEVOLUTION | Max Brooks 06.16.2020 | Del Rey Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined…until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing - … Continue reading Book Review: Devolution
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE | Katharine Turner 10.23.2018 | Imprint Rating: 4/5 stars Anna Shepard is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she’s struggling with her mom’s death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She’s looking forward to skipping town after … Continue reading Book Review: Anna and the Apocalypse
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
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
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