Tag: book review
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What Makes The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue A Fan Favourite?
I was always unsure about how The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab got so much praise and was on every girl’s favourites list several years back (and even still to this day). My first read of it ended in a sentiment that it wasn’t anything special, that people may have overhyped it,…
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My Thoughts on Bunny
If you’re looking for a full review, I’m sorry but this isn’t that. I wish I could provide a more in-depth review of Mona Awad’s Bunny but it didn’t quite match my expectations and while it was fun for a little bit, my preferences and specified taste in tropes and themes clashed with those found…
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The Great Redemption in A Brush with Shadows
We’re back on track with A Brush wth Shadows, the sixth book in Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby Mystery Series. We’ve got personal ties to strain and tug on, a lush scenery with its own moodiness and raging emotions, tense relations and interactions and the ever-necessary hidden truths and layers of lies that make a…
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All Authors Must Read Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft is on of those writer’s whom set the foundations for a genre. His work, unappreciated in his years on this earth, lives on as a pinnacle of modern horror and he stands as the father of cosmic horror. You may not know is name off the top of your head if you’re…
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The Maidens Threw Me For A Loop
I went into this thinking The Maidens by Alex Michaelides was going to be a dark academia read similar to that of If We Were Villains. I was wrong. The Maidens is not simply a dark academia book – its adult crime fiction. If you had the same thinking as me, then let this be…
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The Library of the Unwritten – A Comfy Demonic Autumn Read
I went into Library of the Unwritten purely guided by the premise of a library within Hell for books left undeveloped and a librarian tasked with keeping them together. I stayed because A.J. Hackwith is an incredible author with an uncanny ability to create something so cosy and sweet based in the depths of Hell.…
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Susan Dennard’s The Luminaries – A YA Dark Naturalism Favourite
I love a book with a dark, moody setting. Give me a forest, a secluded town, and a mythical-dipped lore whereby people must guard the population by dealing with what lurks in the shadows. Susan Dennard’s The Luminaries gives all that and more and it’s a wonderful introduction to the world of dark naturalism –…
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A House With Good Bones Also Has Good Creep Factor
T. Kingfisher’s A House With Good Bones is a horror novel with a decent premise, a likeable narrator and a plethora of creepy details and affinities that flesh out all compelling horror books. You can’t help but feel on edge when bugs and vultures are involved. There were things I really liked about this book,…
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Not Sure How I Feel About As Death Draws Near
As Death Draws Near, the fifth novel in Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby Mystery Series, started off on an interesting foot. We have a sudden summons to Ireland, the return of a troublesome character from the first book, and a sensitive significance of religion as the tensions bubble between Protestant and Catholics. Unfortunately, it didn’t…
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The Incredible Mary Shelley and her work Frankenstein
Mary Shelley is the pioneer of science fiction, the grandmother of horror, the idol for many generations of women aspiring to become author, or simply to have a voice, and of many authors of all genders in the centuries following her publication of Frankenstein. We wouldn’t have our spine-chilling horror, boundless science fiction or any…