Have you ever watched the movie Grave Encounters & thought to yourself, wow, I love this, but I wish it had more physics??? ….Okay, reading that back makes it sound like I’m being facetious, but I’m not at all. That’s kind of how I would elevator pitch this book. It’s like Grave Encounters with more…
If I told you I’d read a book featuring The Society of the Living Dead, coffins that glow in the dark even after being buried for years, and young women with bodies that are literally rotting to pieces before their eyes, you might think I’m describing a horror novel—and reasonably so. But actually, it’s non-fiction.…
If you thought This Is Where We Talk Things Out was anxiety inducing, wait until you read the first and titular story in Marceau’s upcoming short horror fiction collection, A Blackness Absolute. I don’t know how Marceau got into my brain, but sometimes it feels like she’s in there scrolling through a fancy iPad menu…
Ghost Eaters. Y’all. When I first finished this book, I had to just wander around my apartment staring at things for a little while, trying to process my thoughts. I was afloat. I, myself, felt like a bit of a ghost. You’ve heard the term “book hangover”? This gave me a major one. I didn’t start…
If you are looking for the perfect book to add to your list of Halloween & spooky season reads, look no further. This is the one. Keep reading to find out more, but no need to beware—I won’t be dropping any spoilers here. This is one you have to experience for yourself. I seriously cannot…
Imagine a ghost story featuring creepy Victorian era ghost girls with tragic backstories and a barrage of supernatural goings-on to torment the main character, except instead of taking place in a spooky old mansion or a crumbling castle, it’s set on a tropical island with beautiful aquamarine beaches, palm trees, and colorful flowers. That’s The Depths, and…
The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman, comes out in just over one month and is full of summer camp killer vibes, interesting characters that you can’t quite pin down, and a twisted mystery that will keep you guessing. The Counselors follows junior camp counselor, Goldie, an eighteen-year-old who has been affiliated with Camp Alpine Lake for nearly…
Burden Falls was a fun mix between traditional thriller and supernatural. Penguin Teen describes it as “Riverdale meets The Haunting of Hill House”, which I thought was a really fitting description, because as I was reading it, I was getting major Riverdale vibes, if Riverdale had a little more of a New England-y, old money, old families type vibe. Burden Falls follows Ava,…
I recently read two almost-fall (let’s be serious late August/early September is pretty much fall for all us pumpkin/spooky/sweater-and-boots outfit lovers) new releases from Penguin Teen. Thank you again Penguin Teen for the ARCs in exchange for reviews! The first one was The Companion, a YA spooky horror/thriller by Katie Alender which was just released…
I thought a lot about how I wanted to critique this book, because sometimes I think I’m being too harsh. And sometimes I also think I’m being too generous, and I don’t want to hand out five star ratings to just anything because then does it diminish the worthiness of five star ratings? If everything…