3/5 stars My Best Friend's Exorcism , by Grady Hendrix (2016) TW: The one part I actually had to skip was the torture of a dog. You can fully skip over those pages and not miss anything. The second there's a dog in a bathroom - flip forward a few pages! "Like Beaches meets The Exorcist , only it's set in the Eighties." This book was recommended to me by a local librarian, and I had a lot of fun reading it. It's a quick read. Kind of spoofy and silly with a dark sense of hum

3/5 stars Model Home , by Rivers Solomon (2024) TW: Racism, homophobia & transphobia, child sexual abuse, emotional abuse, parent death,...

5/5 stars The Girl in Red (2019), and Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook (2017) , by Christina Henry Trigger Warnings (both...

3/5 stars Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery , by Brom (2021) A fun read for lovers of witch &/or Puritanical witch-hunt era stories. Abitha...

4 & 3 out of 5 stars What Moves the Dead and What Feasts at Night , by T. Kingfisher (2022 & 2024) 4/5 stars What Moves the Dead A...

3/5 stars Graveyard Shift , by M.L. Rio (2024) I absolutely loved Rio's If We Were Villains , which I have read twice. So I was excited...

4/5 stars Woodworm , by Layla Martínez (2021) Translated by Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott I got this in a book swap at my book club's...

5/5 stars A House With Good Bones , by T. Kingfisher (2023) To me this was reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the...

4/5 stars The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw (2023) A mermaid with no tongue, who's run away from her prince husband, leaving behind...

4/5 stars The Parliament, by Aimee Pokwatka (2024) "First it was one girl, then a second joined in. It felt good to scream - little girls...

3/5 stars (ish) Our Hideous Progeny, by C.E. McGill (2023) If I did half stars this would be a 2.5, but I'm rounding up to 3 because this...

2/5 stars Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020) TW: Allusions to sexual assault, incest, suicide, cannibalism, murder...

3/5 stars The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling (2021) First 3/4 of the book - 5 stars. The final 1/4 of the book lost its way....

5/5 stars The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean (2022) Vampires for book lovers! (with zombies too, kind of). I was planning to wait until next...

3/5 stars A Cosmology of Monsters, by Shaun Hamill (2019) TW: mental illness, suicide, cancer, sexual assault "Noah Turner sees monsters....

3/5 stars Sorrowland, by Rivers Solomon (2021) The first 3/4 of this book were pretty masterful, in my opinion. The final 1/4 -...

1/5 stars The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris (2021) Y I K E S. Huh. That was unexpected and not... umm... yeah, just not...

4/5 stars Alice, Red Queen, and Looking Glass, by Christina Henry (2015, 2016, 2020) Describe Alice in 140 characters or less. Christina...

5/5 stars We Have Always Lived in the Castle , by Shirley Jackson (1962) This October, in the run-up to Halloween, I've been watching...