Just a girl and her books
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
LITTLE EVE | Catriona Ward 10.11.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want … Continue reading Book Review: Little Eve
ECHO| Thomas Olde Heuvelt 02.08.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3/5 stars Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but … Continue reading Book Review: Echo
LUTE | Jennifer Marie Thorne 10.04.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 5/5 stars On the idyllic island of Lute, every seventh summer, seven people die. No more, no less. Lute and its inhabitants are blessed, year after year, with good weather, good health, and good fortune. They live a happy, superior life, untouched by the war … Continue reading Book Review: Lute
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD | T. Kingfisher 07.12.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4.5/5 stars When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths … Continue reading Book Review: What Moves the Dead
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
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
DEAD SILENCE | S.A. Barnes 02.08.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - made obsolete - when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire convinces her team to investigate. What they find … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Silence
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