Tag: Monsters
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All Your Bloody Lies (Book 1), by M.L. Burns
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review Let me start by saying my 5 year old saw me put in my earbuds and asked, “Are you listening to a book?”. I said yeah and she asks, “What’s it called?” So I read the title and her response was, “Is it a…
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The Things Gods Break, by Abigail Owen (WITH spoilers)
This is book 2 of the series. For our summary and review of book 1, The Games Gods Play, check out this link for our spoiler-free review or this link for our more in-depth review! Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5 Summary This review DOES contain spoilers from the book. If you’d prefer a review…
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Stolen Tongues, by Felix Blackwell
Since our book club thoroughly enjoyed The Sorrowstones, we decided to try out another book by Felix Blackwell – Stolen Tongues! Another unique horror story with interesting characters and a chaotic plot. Book Stats Shayna’s Review Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 I think I loved this book more than The Sorrowstones, up until the end. I…
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Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow
For our book club, we settled on a fantasy book this time. Starling House follows Opal and Arthur’s story. Opal is a poor, orphaned woman with crooked teeth (I know because this was mentioned 10 bazillion times). She is trying to provide for her 16-year-old brother and save enough money to get him out of…
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The Lost Coast, by Daniel Robinson
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐ / 5 Spice: 🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review The Lost Coast, by Daniel Robinson, starts off strong with a violent massacre. Immediately, we’re transported into a story where white settlers decide they need to kill 250 Wiyot tribe members, sparing no one, not even women or children. It was…
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The Sorrowstones, by Felix Blackwell
We decided to try something new in our book club and chose something from the horror genre, rather than a thriller or fantasy. The Sorrowstones, by Felix Blackwell. This story follows Cole Graves, who starts receiving little statues/ figurines throughout the years from an unknown person. He quickly learns that these little statues have extraordinary…
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All Hail Chaos, by Sarah Rees Brennan
This is book 2 of the series. If you’d like to read a review of book 1, Long Live Evil, check out this link! Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review This story is a BLAST and it’s so chaotic, like all the time. I just love it. 💚…
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Long Live Evil, by Sarah Rees Brennan
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review The joy and humor I felt while reading this story rivaled Jasmine Mas’s Cruel Shifterverse series (which honestly says a lot & is super high praise). This plot is chaotic, wild, absurd, and hilarious and I am HERE 👏🏻FOR 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻.…
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Eldritch (Book 2), by Keri Lake
This is book 2 of the series. For our summary and review of book 1, Anathema, check out this link! Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review If you read my review of Anathema, book 1 of the series, you’ll know how much I loved not only the writing and plot,…
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Body Count by Codie Crowley
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review Absolutely phenomenal!! In a YA Horror that rivals Fear Street, Crowley tells us the story of Sundae Valentine, a little girl who makes a deal with a monster in a motel pool. The book goes back and forth between Sundae’s childhood and making the wish, and present day when…