Book Review: Minus by Lisa Naffziger (2019)
One of the worst comic books I’ve ever read. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for child abuse and trauma. This review contains spoilers. ) The...
View ArticleBook Review: The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent (2019)
An enjoyable read, despite the implausible ending. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for mental health issues.) The ramshackle, one-room cabin...
View ArticleBook Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers (2018)
Serial + The Girls, with a pinch of Vigilante = Sadie (Full disclosure: I received a free ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for violence against women and children, including rape.)...
View ArticleBook Review: Spectacle, Vol. 1 by Megan Rose Gedris (2018)
Engaging premise and setting, but a deeply unsatisfying ending. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley. Trigger warning for ableist language directed at the circus “freaks”.) Twin...
View ArticleBook Review: A Guide for Murdered Children by Sarah Sparrow (2018)
Somewhere, A Unicorn Is Crying (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for violence, including the rape, torture, and murder of children.) For...
View ArticleBook Review: Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery (New Edition) by Mat Johnson and...
“Assimilation as Revolution.” (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for racist violence, including depictions of lynchings.) Zane Pinchback...
View ArticleBook Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager (2017)
Enjoy with a slice of red velvet cake. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for rape and suicide.) While there were other multiple homicides...
View ArticleBook Review: The Fall of Lisa Bellow, Susan Perabo (2017)
An insightful and sometimes uncanny story about relationships, trauma, and the darkest corners of our secret selves. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley....
View ArticleBook Review: The Roanoke Girls, Amy Engel (2017)
Not for the faint of heart. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Netgalley. Trigger warning for child abuse and violence against women, including rape, as well as...
View ArticleMini-Review: The Killer in Me, Margot Harrison (2016)
Meh. Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She’s intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims’ bodies in an...
View ArticleDNF Review: Kill the Next One, Frederico Axat (2016)
Not for me. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss. Obvious trigger warning for suicide and other forms of violence, including animal abuse.) Ted McKay was...
View ArticleBook Review: Last Seen Leaving, Caleb Roehrig (2016)
What happened to January Beth McConville? (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for sexual harassment and rape. This review contains a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Lost and the Found, Cat Clark (2016)
On Children Lost and Found – and Overlooked and Forgotten (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for rape.) Chances are, you have seen her....
View ArticleBook Review: The Conjoined, Jen Sookfong Lee (2016)
“I come from a family of psychopaths.” (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for violence, including rape and child abuse. This review...
View ArticleBook Review: With Malice, Eileen Cook (2016)
With Malice will keep you guessing – even after the end! (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.) “Right now your brain knows there is missing information, and...
View ArticleBook Review: Wink Poppy Midnight, April Genevieve Tucholke (2016)
A Different Kind of Fairy Tale There was an evil in me too, a cruel streak. I don’t know where it came from and I didn’t really want it, no more than I’d want big feet or mousy brown hair or a piggish...
View ArticleBook Review: Black-Eyed Susans: A Novel of Suspense, Julia Heaberlin (2015)
He Hunts Me, He Hunts Me Not (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for rape and other forms of violence.) The abandoned field on the Jenkins...
View ArticleBook Review: The Well, Catherine Chanter (2015)
One person’s paradise is another person’s perdition. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for rape, pedophilia, and domestic violence.)...
View ArticleBook Review: The Ice Twins: A Novel, S.K. Tremayne (2015)
This Book is Bonkers (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for rape and violence, including rough sex.) “Mummy, why do you keep calling me...
View ArticleBook Review: Church of Marvels: A Novel, Leslie Parry (2015)
“I have witnessed the sublime in the mundane…” (Full disclosure: I received a free ARC for review from the publisher.) But this story, in truth, is not about me. I am only a small part of it. I could...
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