TRIGGER WARNING: This review contains mention of domestic abuse and stalker behavior. You have been warned. It's been a while since I read a really good thriller. Although I probably would not have read today's book if I had not recently become quite interested in true crime. To pass the time at work, I have … Continue reading The Obsession, by Jesse Q. Sutanto →

I was lukewarm to S. Jae-Jones' Wintersong on my first reading, but since returning to it a few years back, it haunted me in a way it had not before. Maybe the reason I could not understand it the first time was that my life experience did not quite match up with it yet. Wintersong … Continue reading Shadowsong, by S. Jae-Jones →

The Exorcist is one of those books that I wish I could read for the first time again. It's been almost a year since I first read it and some parts still haunt me. I've even watched the movie once or twice again since then, and I've come to appreciate the story's impact on horror. … Continue reading Legion, by William Peter Blatty →

Our old friend Janette Rallison has returned for some standard YA comfort reading. Not much more is needed to introduce My Fair Godmother, a companion novel to My Unfair Godmother.  Savannah Delano cannot wait to take her boyfriend Hunter to the prom…until he dumps her for her older sister Jane. Despondent and desperate, Savannah finds … Continue reading My Fair Godmother, by Janette Rallison →

We can all name some classic children's portal fantasies, and the worlds they introduce us to, like Oz, Narnia, and Wonderland. Time and again, writers have tried to replicate the writing styles that created those worlds for us, and it's super hard to distinguish oneself from such giants of fantasy. However, Cathrynne M. Valente rose … Continue reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente →

Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, several important figures in Norse mythology have entered the popular conscious. Although the MCU does not represent these figures very accurately, their names still spark curiosity in several people, myself included. In fact, it was thanks to the MCU that I took a Norse Mythology course my junior year … Continue reading The Witch’s Heart, by Genevieve Gornichec →

For once, I turned to a rom-com book not because of anxiety or the absolute lack of other reading material but because my sisters would not stop raving about this book, and it happened to be in my sister’s Audible account. So I plugged into it one day and started listening. It's cliche at this … Continue reading It Happened One Summer, by Tessa Bailey →

The Haunting of Hill House is often touted as the greatest ghost story of the 20th century and has seen several incarnations, including the play adaptation, which I was fortunate enough to see at a community theater I once did costumes for. Thus, I knew the story going into this book and was ready for … Continue reading The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson →

If you are into old-school crime thriller novels, maybe you’ve heard of Anne Perry's bestselling works. Even fewer may know her origins as Juliet Hulme, whose adolescent friendship with Pauline Parker in early 1950s New Zealand would prove fatal. Not for her, mind you, but for Pauline’s mother Honora. Juliet and Pauline’s story has been … Continue reading Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham →

I feel like I'm taking a risk reviewing this book. I honestly felt the same way when I reviewed The Hate U Give, the book that paved the way for the story of Concrete Rose. After all, some might say, how can a middle-class white woman review experiences that she has never gone through or … Continue reading Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas →