Tag: the maidens

• Creepy Book Recs

  At last, my final book recs list for Spooktober 2025. This one is all about the creepy, the eerie, the horrifying, and the unsettling. Making these lists has been so much fun, but I can’t lie – I will be happy to go back to my four posts a week schedule in November. I have…

  annafromuni

  October 26, 2025

  Discussion Posts, Horror

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• The Never-Ending Tale of Alex Michaelides’s The Fury

  Hell hath no fury like a reader bored. Not only bored, but irritated at what should have been a succinct twisting tale full of drama and thrilling suspense. Instead, I seem to have been subjected to an unfortunate case of deja vu and a pretentious, unreliable narrator who cannot stand to listen to anyone else…

  annafromuni

  May 4, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction

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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…

  annafromuni

  October 10, 2023

  Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction

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