My Rating: 4 stars After getting a divorce, Kara (called Carrot) moves home to help her uncle his small museum full of taxidermy and other oddities. But things become truly strange when a hole appears in the wall leading to a bunker that shouldn't exist. Her and her barista friend, Simon, start exploring only to… Continue reading The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
My Rating: 2 Stars Many thanks to Nightfire, Macmillan Publishing, and NetGalley for ARC. This book comes out today, October 19 2021. Whoever designed this cover nailed it just as much as Khaw nails the terrifying atmosphere in this novella. Nothing But Blackened Teeth presents us with a group of five friends gathering in a… Continue reading Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
My Rating: 4 stars Many thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the ARC! This book comes out today, October 5th 2021! Let's just take a moment to appreciate this cover. Isn't it gorgeously creepy? And The Death of Jane Lawrence delivers on all the cover promises. This book is strange, disturbing, and perfect… Continue reading The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
My Rating: 3 stars I've had a bit of a hard time figuring out my thoughts on What Big Teeth. I picked it up because I saw it referred to as Addams Family-esque but scarier. After returning home from boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin finds she no longer fits in with her strange and spooky family.… Continue reading What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
My Rating: 3 stars The Companion is a YA gothic thriller about Margot, a teenager who is the only survivor of her family's tragic car crash. She is taken by the wealthy Sutton family to be a companion to their daughter, who is all but catatonic due to a mysterious illness, and moves into their… Continue reading The Companion by Katie Alender
My Rating: 3.5 Stars I don't usually give half stars on this blog, but I went back and forth between three and four stars for so long on this one that I decided to make an exception. I'm not entirely sure what to say about Bunny. I think I liked it? It was a lot… Continue reading Bunny by Mona Awad
Many thanks to Subterranean Press and NetGalley for the ARC! This book will be released on September 30 2020. My Rating: 3 stars Edited By is a fantasy and horror anthology compiled from previous works Ellen Datlow has edited. I had never heard of Datlow before picking up this book, but I loved the idea… Continue reading Edited By edited by Ellen Datlow
A Literary Princess 