Category: Adult Fiction
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Book Review: Hidden Pictures
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a…
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Book Review: I Who Have Never Known Men
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night…
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Book Review: The Hacienda
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas Synopsis: Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches… In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don…
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Book Review: William
William by Mason Coile Synopsis: Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI. Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career — he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness.…
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Book Reviews: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Normally I would split these up, but I’ve read the first three books in this series and decided to bundle them together! Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has…
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Book Review: Dearest
If you’ve followed my blog for a bit, by now you may have noticed I enjoy horror, supernatural, and thrillers. So it would be no surprise that I wanted to read Dearest by Jacquie Walters. Horror books can sometimes be hit or miss and this one was extremely well done. The book was excellently paced,…
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Book Review: A House with Good Bones
LBPS (Long Blog Post Short): This book was really good. I got to hand it to T. Kingfisher, she really did an excellent job with this novel. I love a good well rounded novel, everything from the characters, the plot, the little science and pop culture tidbits, and down to the vocabulary was a literal…
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Book Review: The Haunting of Ashburn House
I was so sure I would be obsessed with this book, but unfortunately reality didn’t live up to the hype in my head. The main character, supporting characters and the whole story just left me feeling ‘blah’ by the end. And I was ready to put it down and go to the next book. Which…