Just a girl and her books
OSGOOD AS GONE | Cooper S. Beckett (The Spectral Inspector #1) 04.22.2019 | Horror & Carnage Press Rating: 4/5 stars Prudence Osgood was once an up-and-coming star in the paranormal investigation TV genre. Today she finds herself as a barely functioning alcoholic battling chronic pain through the use of drugs. Not only does she have … Continue reading Book Review: Osgood As Gone
A HOUSE AT THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE | Josh Malerman 10.31.2016 | This is Horror Rating: 4/5 stars James and Amelia are two seventeen-year-olds who have just met. They decide to have their first date canoeing on the lake. They have an instant spark of chemistry as they bond over disastrous first dates and … Continue reading Book Review: A House at the Bottom of a Lake
CARRIE | Stephen King 12.31.2018 (first published 1974) | Anchor Books Rating: 4/5 stars Carrie White is an unpopular high school student growing up in Chamberlain, Maine. Her mother is a religious fanatic who constantly berates Carrie for her actions. She doesn’t want her to dress like the other kids, behave like the other kids, … Continue reading Book Review: Carrie
INSPECTION | Josh Malerman 03.19.2019 | Del Rey Books Rating: 4/5 stars The Alphabet Boys are being trained at a school built to raise geniuses by a group known as The Parenthood. Twenty-six boys have lived within the walls of the Turret their whole lives. They have no knowledge of the outside world or the … Continue reading Book Review: Inspection
THE NIGHTMARE GIRL | Jonathan Janz 02.14.2019 | Flame Tree Press Rating: 4.5/5 stars What would you do if you found yourself at a gas station witnessing a young mother abusing her child? Would you step in to stop her? Joe Crawford finds himself in this very situation. His decision to interfere and stop the … Continue reading Book Review: The Nightmare Girl
FIRESTARTER | Stephen King 12.11.2018 (first published 09.29.1980) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars When Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were college students they both needed a way to make some extra cash. They volunteered to participate in an experiment for a drug. Unbeknownst to them, this experiment wasn’t being run by a professor, but … Continue reading Book Review: Firestarter
IN THE RIVER | Jeremy Robert Johnson 08.02.2017 | Lazy Fascist Press Rating: 5/5 stars This is a novella about loss, how it impacts us, and the lengths that we are willing to go to for those that we love. Every parent’s nightmare has happened. While out on a father/son fishing lesson, a man watches … Continue reading Book Review: In the River
RABID HEART | Jeremy Wagner 08.10.2018 | Riverdale Avenue Books Rating: 4/5 stars Six months have passed since the Necro Rabies pandemic swept the Earth. Rhonda is now living in a world filled with hordes of rabid undead humans known as “Cujos”. She has thought for these last six months that her fiance, Brad, was … Continue reading Book Review: Rabid Heart
DEAD OF WINTER | Kealan Patrick Burke 12.11.2018 | Independently published Rating: 4/5 stars Winter is traditionally recognized as the time for holiday cheer. The time you go and play out in the snow and build snowmen. What if you don’t remember building those snowmen in your yard? What if they’ve come to life? There … Continue reading Book Review: Dead of Winter
DUMA KEY | Stephen King 03.20.2018 (first published 01.22.2008) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Edgar Freemantle’s world is flipped upside down thanks to a terrible construction accident that leaves him without a right arm, prone to memory issues, and struggling with his words and vocabulary. Rehabilitation is no easy experience and Edgar is often … Continue reading Book Review: Duma Key
