“The truth is I hate keep secrets. I always have. All they really do is tear people apart,” (Derrick 1). Eighteen-year-old Stevie and Nora have a deep, true, heart-stopping kind of love, and they also have a plan. In just a few weeks they’re going to leave their ultra-conservative town and their parents and move to …
“Forgetting was just another way of leaving, and everybody left eventually,” (Jackson 289). Sixteen-years-ago Rachel Price vanished, leaving her two-year-old daughter Bel in the backseat of their car with no memories of who took her. Now eighteen, Bel is a part of a documentary talking about the case and how Rachel’s disappearance has affected her, though …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “To grieve is to rot from the inside out,” (Pedersen). Estranged from his family for twenty-years, Nick Morrow returns to Stag Crossing, his family’s farmhouse in rural Nebraska, after receiving a call from his abusive father telling him he’s dying. But Nick isn’t the only …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “Now I’m coming to think that I don’t want anything to do with heroes, ever again,” (Beagle 162). Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (or Robert, as he prefers to be called) has taken over his recently deceased’s father’s dragon extermination business. In the …
“You can never win at playing the cis game. You can win on so much, but you will never win that…I hate that they make me choose. I hate it like I hate almost nothing else,” (Plett 125). Thirty-year-old Wendy Reimer’s Mennonite grandmother has just died. After an awkward funeral service, Wendy ends up learning that …
In The Book of Séances, Claire Goodchild examines the history of speaking with the dead and our fascination with the afterlife while also detailing the different ways in which a person can build a connection and communicate with spirits from beyond. I’m a bit of a fraidy cat when it comes to ghosts, so me purchasing …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “In your head, and your secret heart, it’s easy to be tough,” (Jones). Four years after Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour, Jade Daniel’s is back in Proofrock, Idaho. Now a history teacher at her old high school, Jade tries to move …
“‘Not invisible…Because it’s there if you look. You’re just not going to find it in the way our history’s told. Canadian history is white people’s history, and they don’t get that because they don’t know that white is a colour. They think they are invisible…We see them clearly because we have to. And we see …
“Hill House neither sleeps nor dreams. Shrouded within its overgrown lawns and sprawling woodlands, the long shadows of mountains and ancient oaks, Hill House watches. Hill House waits,” (Hand 3). Struggling playwright Holly Sherwin has just received a grant to develop her play, an adaption of The Witch of Edmonton, that may just bring her the success …
“It’s a feeling that comes from inside a person. A brightness certain people possess that makes them unique. Your heart glows especially bright, Kess Pedrock,” (Averling 116). Kess Pedrock’s life is unnatural. Her favourite hobby is looking for megafauna fossils and skeletons, she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum, and her best friend is …
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