“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible,” (Bardugo 71). Alex Stern never thought she’d be going to Yale. A recovering addict and lone survivor of an unsolved homicide, Alex is given the second chance to attend Yale on a paid scholarship. …
“You do not get to keep what is sweetest to you; you only get to remember it from the vantage point of having lost it,” (Schaitkin 205). Vera lives in a small town surrounded by mountains. The town loves and protects their own and has a particular reverence for mothers, all of whom suffer the same …
“The amount of pain we can endure is spectacular. We are conditioned to withstand torture, to haul gray boulders of hurt on our shoulders, to confront the pressure endlessly, the heavy rough stone wearing away at us until our skin breaks open, revealing the bloody red flesh below,” (Etter). Cassie has been employed with Voyager for …
I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. “None of us chooses the life we discover we’re leading. That’s our tragedy and our challenge,” (Dimovitz 157). After his mother dies, Ed Pullman, art-school dropout, aimlessly wanders Allentown, Pennsylvania looking for purpose. With his loving cousin Ester offering comfort, guidance, and introduction to …
“Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over,” (Jones 19). Four years after Jennifer Daniels survives a slasher she falls right back into it just as she’s found herself back in Proofrock, Idaho. Convicted serial killer Dark Mill …
“…in the slasher, wrongs are always punished. The crew that did the bad prank years ago gets the just dessert they deserve, with a bloody cherry on top, and when they least expect it, making it all better…A little bloody maybe, but all the dead people are people who were asking for it,” (Jones 48). Jade …
“Sometimes patrons ask if my full first name is Benjamin. Then they ask if I know what my name means…They are surprised to find out I’m the oldest of two sons and not the youngest of twelve. They look at me as if I’m wearing the wrong name tag, wearing the wrong name,” (Robinson 31). …
“The central tragedy of childhood is never getting what you want,” (Easton). Easton’s memoir explores their life growing up in the West as a Mormon, queer, Autistic individual. Following them as a child in the Mormon church and a student at an Anglican boys’ boarding school to be “reformed,” to mall bathrooms, rodeos, bathhouses, and Catholic …
“If God gives yoyu meaning, if God makes you good, if God makes you real and worthy and powerful, then that’s my Ralph. Ralph made my suffering better, healthy and righteous. He made my suffering want only good things: make the pain stop and I’ll be the best wife in the world,” (Hogarth). After Abby’s mother-in-law …
“The future is a fluid thing, Susie. Little is definite. We’re born and therefore one day we’ll die. That’s unavoidable. As for everything in between…Just do your best, dear. That’s all any of us can do,” (Scott 55-56). After Susie’s beloved aunt dies she is given her house and is excited to start renovating it. But …
Sarah O'Connor 