Halloween may have been yesterday, but it seems I’m still going to talk about creepy books! In Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, young socialite Noemí and her father receive a letter from Noemí’s cousin Catalina, who has moved from Mexico City to her new husband’s manor house, High Place. The letter reveals Catalina in a …
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Book Review | What Stalks the Deep
On a definitely unrelated note I promise, I want to rewatch the Star Trek episode “The Devil in the Dark.” Anyway, in What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher, retired soldier Alex Easton receives a message from Dr. James Denton, asking for help with a bizarre situation. So Easton, who owes Denton for helping at …
Book Review | Make Me a Monster
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m fully back in my Frankenstein obsession. Bring on the del Toro movie! If it’s even half as amazing as it looks, I’m going to lose my mind about it. But that’s a different discussion. So Make Me a Monster by Kalynn Bayron follows Meka, a teenager whose parents run a …
Book Review | The Unkillable Frank Lightning
As might be clear from an earlier review, I’m re-entering my Frankenstein obsession. Not that I was ever truly out of that obsession, but still. (Also, fun fact: pictured below is not even half of the editions of Frankenstein that I own.) In The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree, Dr. Catherine Coldbridge has spent …
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Book Review | Eat the Ones You Love
As you might have guessed from the title, this one is weird. In Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, Michelle “Shell” Pine is at loose ends after breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, moving back in with her parents, and getting laid off. She manages to get a job at a local …
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