How did I get the book? StorytellersInc Book Club Genre: Paranormal / Dystopian Synopsis: Danny is a fun-loving 16-year-old looking for a father figure and falling in love with a different girl every day. He certainly doesn’t want to follow in his mum’s witchy footsteps. Just as his community is being threatened by gangs intent … Continue reading
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Asylum by Madeleine Roux
Asylum by Madeleine Roux For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer … Continue reading
Bookish Trick or Treat – #HalloweenReads
Halloween is nearly upon us and in it’s time for me to recommend some books. This year I’ve split them between TREATS, those reads that you’d expect on a chilling dark Halloween night. Deep woods, haunted places, the unexplained… better lock your doors and windows tight. And TRICKS, books that might not immediately spring to … Continue reading
The Suffering (The Girl from the Well #2) by Rin Chupeco
How did I get the book? Netgalley, thank you Sourcebooks Fire Genre: Horror Synopsis: Over the last year I’ve gone against faceless women, disfigured spirits, and grotesque revenants. Some people keep dangerous hobbies; skydiving and driving at monster truck rallies and glacier surfing. Me? I cast my soul into the churning waters of potential damnation … Continue reading
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
How did I get the book? Netgalley, thank you Sourcebooks Fire Genre: Horror Synopsis: You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that … Continue reading
Monsters by Emerald Fennell
How did I get the book? I bought it at YALC Genre: Thriller / Mystery Synopsis: A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet. Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is … Continue reading
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie & Alyssa B. Sheinmel
How did I get the book? Blogger Event Genre: Horror Synopsis: Based on the wildly popular YouTube channel, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl has been described as “ Gilmore Girls meets Paranormal Activity for the new media age.” YA fans new and old will learn the secrets behind Sunshine—the adorkable girl living in a haunted … Continue reading
Monster by C.J. Skuse
How did I get the book? Received a copy at the blogger awards Genre: Horror / Thriller Previously reviewed: Dead Romantic Rockoholic Synopsis: At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she’d face. Until her brother’s disappearance leads to Nash being trapped … Continue reading
The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3) by Jonathan Stroud
How did I get the book? I bought it Genre: Paranormal Previously Reviewed: The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2) The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co Novella) Synopsis: Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambollic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its … Continue reading
Wytches, Vol. 1 (Wytches #1-6) by Scott Snyder & Jock (Illustrator)
How did I get the book? I bought it Genre: Graphic Novel / Horror Synopsis: Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. Wytches takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared venture before. When the Rooks … Continue reading
