Just a girl and her books
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
THE CORMORANT | Stephen Gregory 06.18.2013 (original written in 1986) | Valancourt Books Rating 3/5 stars A young family has inherited a small cottage in north Wales. The home was surprisingly left to them by a bachelor uncle, who lived a quiet life. This cottage affords the couple a new start outside of the bustling … Continue reading Book Review: The Cormorant
CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN | Molly Tanzer 11.13.2018 | John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books Rating: 4/5 stars Ellie West is a moonshine bootlegger living in a small town in Long Island, known as Amityville. Here she finds herself working to assist her family and send her brother to college through any means necessary. Fishing by … Continue reading Book Review: Creatures of Want & Ruin
OUT BEHIND THE BARN | John Boden & Chad Lutzke 09.27.2018 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Rating: 5/5 stars Davey and Ronny can hear Miss Maggie returning in the middle of the night. As they creep to their window, they spot her heading to the barn with a long bundle, the weight of which makes … Continue reading Book Review: Out Behind the Barn
STIRRING THE SHEETS | Chad Lutzke 04.13.2018 | Bloodshot Books Rating: 5/5 stars Emmett is an elderly funeral home worker who is struggling to cope with the loss of his wife. He can’t bring himself to change the sheets from the last night she slept in their bed. Emmett knows that he needs to move … Continue reading Book Review: Stirring the Sheets
THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES: VOLUME 2 | Edited by Allen Grove November 2017 | Valancourt Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES: VOLUME 2 is a collection of fifteen short stories from the Victorian era that were collected from various periodicals of the time. After the … Continue reading Book Review: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Two
UNMEMORY | Kristi DeMeester 2018 | Tallhat Press Rating: 4/5 stars UNMEMORY is a short story that truly delivers something haunting! The premise of this story focuses on a college student who was traumatized by a film that she accidentally watched when she was a young child. This film is about a Santa Claus who … Continue reading Book Review: Unmemory
