Just a girl and her books
JACKAL by Erin E. Adams 10/4/2022 | Bantam Rating: 4.5/5 stars Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive … Continue reading Book Review: Jackal
SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER | Lucy A. Snyder 02.21.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires an appetite for a woman and her brain. Why does … Continue reading Book Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster
THE SPITE HOUSE | Johnny Compton 02.07.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he’s desperate for money. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson … Continue reading Book Review: The Spite House
WHITE HORSE | Erika T. Wurth 11.01.2022 | Flatiron Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse have defined urban Indian Kari James’s life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently … Continue reading Book Review: White Horse
TELL ME I’M WORTHLESS | Alison Rumfitt 01.17.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3.5/5 stars Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself … Continue reading Book Review: Tell Me I’m Worthless
CERTAIN DARK THINGS | Silvia Moreno-Garcia 09.07.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec … Continue reading Book Review: Certain Dark Things
LEECH | Hiron Ennes09.27.2022 | TordotcomRating: 3/5 stars In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking … Continue reading Book Review: Leech
THE LOST VILLAGE | Camilla Sten03.23.2021 | Minotaur BooksRating: 4.5/5 stars Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Village
IT RIDES A PALE HORSE | Andy Marino10.04.2022 | RedhookRating: 4/5 stars The Larkin siblings are known around the small town of Wofford Falls. Both are artists, but Peter Larkin, Lark to his friends, is the hometown hero. The one who went to the big city and got famous, then came back and settled down. … Continue reading Book Review: It Rides A Pale Horse
DEAD FLIP | Sara Farizan 08.30.2022 | Algonquin Young Readers Rating: 4/5 stars Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Flip
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