Just a girl and her books
HALLOWEEN FIEND | C.V. Hunt 02.16.2019 | Grindhouse Press Rating: 4/5 stars This is the story of Strang, a small, isolated town. On the outside it looks like any other town of similar size, however, once night strikes there is one noticeable difference. The residents can be spotted leaving small animals in cages outside their … Continue reading Book Review: Halloween Fiend
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
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
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
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