Tag: spooktober reading challenge
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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a Lush, Vivid Nightmare
I mentioned in a Spooktober 2023 post and in my Haunting Author Recommendations post earlier this month The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a renowned H.P. Lovecraft tale not to be missed. I abided by that sentiment and read The Shadow Over Innsmouth to get a feel for the truly horrific and disturbing during this month…
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Andrea Penrose Returns with Murder at King’s Crossing
An Andrea Penrose book has finally come across my bookshelf once again. Murder at King’s Crossing, the eighth instalment in the Wrexford and Sloane Mystery series, brings with it a mix of joy and heartbreak, love and betrayal, and political intrigue and family ties. Thankfully, I was able to pick this up before the end…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Classic Hair-Raising Read
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is perhaps his most well-known novel within the Sherlock Holmes Chronicles, and for good reason. It stands out among his other works – A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, and The Valley of Fear – in its themes, setting and eerie imagery,…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is My Kind of Fairytale Retelling
When it comes to fairytale retellings, I hold Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in high favour. When I first read Cinder I was astounded by the brilliance of this story world and the simple what if? What if we took Cinderella and made it sci-fi? What if we took cinderella and made her a cyborg? What…
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Clockwork Prince – My Favourite Cassandra Clare Book
The title speaks for itself, but it wouldn’t be a good book review if I didn’t note a few things. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare is the second in the Infernal Devices trilogy, following Clockwork Angel and leading up the the riveting finale Clockwork Princess. It has the action of a good ya fantasy novel…
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Spells, Murders and Poe in Hester Fox’s The Widow of Pale Harbour
The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox has been interesting with its inclusion of some iconic Edgar Allen Poe stories and references, but it falls short in delivering an atmospheric and thrilling gothic read. I wish it wasn’t so, but things didn’t pan out quite how I expected them to, and the story feels…
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Time’s Convert – Deborah Harkness’s Extra Dose of Bewitchery
As an avid fan of Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy, I have had my eye on Time’s Convert for a while now. Once I finished The Book of Life, I put a request in for it through the library and happily added it to my Spooktober line-up. I didn’t know what to expect, but I…
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Exotic Excitement in Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is a step up in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Chronicles from A Study in Scarlet, and I’m sure many will agree with me. It is still an introductory novel to the world of Sherlock Holmes and to the main characters, as indicated by the mention of Sherlock’s drug…