Just a girl and her books
CIRQUE BERSERK | Jessica Guess02.12.2020 | UnnervingRating: 4/5 stars The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre at a local carnival, Cirque Berserk. One fateful night, a group of teens killed a dozen people then disappeared into thin air. No one knows why they … Continue reading Book Review: Cirque Berserk
JUST LIKE MOTHER | Anne Heltzel 05.17.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 5/5 stars The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything – and … Continue reading Book Review: Just Like Mother
SUNDIAL | Catriona Ward 03.01.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 5/5 stars All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in … Continue reading Book Review: Sundial
THE RAVENOUS DEAD | Darcy Coates (Gravekeeper #2) 03.15.2022 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 3.5/5 stars Keira has been hired on as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper where she lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on – and only Keira … Continue reading Book Review: The Ravenous Dead
ROAD OF BONES | Christopher Golden 01.25.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1,200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route … Continue reading Book Review: Road of Bones
THE VIOLENCE | Delilah S. Dawson 02.01.2022 | Del Rey Books Rating: 4/5 stars Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea’s husband has turned their home into a prison where he has been abusing her for … Continue reading Book Review: The Violence
MANHUNT | Gretchen Felker-Martin 02.22.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3.5/5 stars Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe. … Continue reading Book Review: Manhunt
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
I’ve decided I want more nostalgia in my reading life and I’ve been adding in some Fear Street books to my monthly TBRs! I’ll be sharing mini reviews throughout the year, so make sure to tune for all the old school fun! SILENT NIGHT by R.L. Stine: Beautiful, cold Reva thinks she can have whatever … Continue reading Mini Reviews: Fear Street Edition
HOUSE OF HOLLOW | Krystal Sutherland 04.06.2021 | Penguin Teen Rating: 5/5 stars Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their necks. … Continue reading Book Review: House of Hollow
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