“Family almost always means someone somewhere doesn’t get to be it,” (Smith 224). Petra and Patch remember a time they created a Ghost after hearing a horrifying story as children. Thirty years later, Petra finds a ghost horse making a mess and knows she can do only one thing: call her estranged sister for help. …
“Because if you aren’t unsettled, then there’ll be no sublime,” (Smith 114). In the near-future, two children find themselves alone. After their mother’s boyfriend drops them off at an abandoned house with food, promising to be back in a week while reminding the children not to go outside too often, the siblings wonder about the …
“Christ ascended into heaven in his body, we are told, but all too often we poor mortals here on earth are left with ugly heaps of maimed meat and that constant, reverberating question: Why? Why? Why?” (King 81). When Jamie Morton was six years old, his smalltown of Harlow, Maine got a new minister. Reverend …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “But the pain of losing a loved one never goes away. It remains deep in one’s soul, like a chronic illness that flares up at intervals. There are good days and bad days,” (Florence). Molly Bannister is a single mother with a four-year-old daughter in …
“In my experience, you couldn’t truly understand the secrets of a house without understanding the people living there first,” (Uketsu 19). After the success of his last book, horror writer Uketsu has been getting inquiries from fans about their own strange buildings and if he might take a look at the floor plans to see if …
“I was going to get myself eaten. I could tell. It was just one of those days,” (Herman 15). There is a threat against Princess Melilot’s life, but she’s used to it. With a scary sorceress for a stepmother that makes Melilot and her magically superior stepsisters go on more and more dangerous quests, a threat …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “You wished for revenge. She heard you. SHE HEARD YOU. Do you understand? SHE! HEARD! YOU!” (Smith 11). After her Sister-Cousin dies on the Highway of Tears, a young Indigenous woman embarks on a journey with her na̱xnox to find the killer and …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242). After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “The Rites simply emerged in his thoughts, self-evident, as if he’d only forgotten them until now. The Rites he must follow to protect humankind from unspeakable suffering,” (Kliewer). Macy Mullins doesn’t know why the caretaking job ad caught her eye, but jobless and struggling to provide …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before. I’m not …
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