“Sometimes we let our truths rot in darkness to preserve the lies we tell in the light,” (“A Cure for Fear of Screaming,” Varghese 147). Varghese’s debut short story collection Chrysalis has gotten a lot of hype surrounded around it and it is deserved each and every one of them (including the numerous awards it has won). …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “That was the thing about families. They knew even the things you wanted to keep secret,” (Sambury). Grieving her mother’s sudden death, Sunny Behre knows she has what it takes to take up her role as leader of her family, as her …
“Maybe I don’t wanna fight a dragon. Maybe I wanna be a dragon. I’m going to write a campaign and I’m going to be the Dungeon Master this time. The Dragon Master Dungeon Master,” (Formato 16). Things aren’t going well for Riley Henderson. She has to take the bus to school now, make herself an afterschool …
“That was the problem with love. It was hard to learn, no matter how harsh the lesson,” (Bardugo 209-210). Alex Stern is determined to get her Virgil, Darlington, out of Hell. Even though the Lethe House has forbidden it, Alex has a plan in place that might just get her and her group to Hell and …
I received this book from Playwrights Canada Press in exchange for an honest review. “And I wonder, I wonder why they tell stories about my cold, dark eyes, the ugly old virgin, the mother of monsters who eats their children as pay for their questions, when no one will stay and have a drink, get to know …
“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 …
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