Monthly Blog Review: January 2026

Posts

Book Reviews
♥ Becoming Violet by Elouise Field (2.5★)
♥ In Mad Hands by Jon Athan (4★)
♥ Odette’s Tea Room by Cat Voleur (4★)
♥ The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke (2.5★)

Game Reviews
♥ Bookshop Simulator (3.5★)
♥ Destiny Child (3.5★)
♥ Hookah Haze (4★)
♥ Lemon Cake (3.5★)
♥ TCG Card Shop Simulator (4.5★)

Comic Reviews
♥ Out of Skin by E.M. Carroll (4★)

Other Posts
♥ 10 Great Horror Cover Artists – Part 3
♥ November 2024 New Release Horror Books
♥ Yearly Blog Review 2025

Books Read

I’ve been in a big slump but I did manage to finish a few short books and play a handful of video games.

Books
♥ In Mad Hands by Jon Athan (4★)
♥ Mon Amour by Cat Voleur (3★)
♥ Odette’s Tea Room by Cat Voleur (4★)

Games Played

♥ Anomalous Coffee Machine
♥ Bookshop Simulator
♥ Date Everything!
♥ Hookah Haze
♥ No, I’m Not Human
♥ TCG Card Shop Simulator

Life and Other Things

Books Hauled

eARCs (Author/Publisher)
♥ Rideshare by James Kaine & Timothy King

Ebook Purchases
♥ ITCH! by Gemma Amor
♥ Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
♥ Normal Things: And Other Collected Works by Cat Voleur
♥ Odette’s Tea Room by Cat Voleur
♥ Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
♥ Slit Mouse by Jae Mazer
♥ Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
♥ The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee

HumbleBundle Ebooks
♥ A Companion to Wolves by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
♥ A Passage of Stars by Kate Elliott
♥ A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
♥ Æstival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
♥ Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
♥ All the Pretty Little Horses by Mira Grant
♥ An Apprentice to Elves by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
♥ Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan
♥ Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
♥ Black Light by Elizabeth Hand
♥ Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
♥ Catseye by Andre Norton
♥ Child of Venus by Pamela Sargent
♥ Chimera by Mira Grant
♥ China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
♥ Countdown by Mira Grant
♥ Coming to You Live by Mira Grant
♥ Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
♥ Fathom by Cherie Priest
♥ Feedback by Mira Grant
♥ Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
♥ Gryphon in Glory by Andre Norton
♥ Horn Crown by Andre Norton
♥ How Green This Land, How Blue the Sea by Mira Grant
♥ Icarus Descending by Elizabeth Hand
♥ Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
♥ Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer
♥ Metaphase by Vonda N. McIntyre
♥ My Real Children by Jo Walton
♥ Nautilus by Vonda N. McIntyre
♥ Necessity by Jo Walton
♥ Points of Departure by Pat Murphy
♥ Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus by Mira Grant
♥ Probability Moon by Nancy Kress
♥ Probability Sun by Nancy Kress
♥ Revolution’s Shore by Kate Elliott
♥ Rise by Mira Grant
♥ Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott
♥ Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
♥ Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott
♥ Starfarers by Vonda N. McIntyre
♥ Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear
♥ The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
♥ The Crystal Gryphon by Andre Norton
♥ The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell by Mira Grant
♥ The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
♥ The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
♥ The Female Man by Joanna Russ
♥ The Gate of the Cat by Andre Norton
♥ The Jargoon Pard by Andre Norton
♥ The Just City by Jo Walton
♥ The Keeper by Sarah Langan
♥ The Missing by Sarah Langan
♥ The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
♥ The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
♥ The Price of Ransom by Kate Elliott
♥ The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
♥ The Shadow Hunter by Pat Murphy
♥ The Tempering of Men by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
♥ The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan
♥ The Toll by Cherie Priest
♥ Traitors’ Gate by Kate Elliott
♥ Transition by Vonda N. McIntyre
♥ Trey of Swords by Andre Norton
♥ Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
♥ Venus of Dreams by Pamela Sargent
♥ Venus of Shadows by Pamela Sargent
♥ Ware Hawk by Andre Norton
♥ Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang by Kate Wilhelm
♥ Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand
♥ Zarsthor’s Bane by Andre Norton

Physical Purchases
♥ After the Burn by Ronald Kelly
♥ Half His Age by Jenette McCurdy
♥ Irish Gothic by Ronald Kelly
♥ Kare First Love Vols. 5-7, 9-10 by Kaho Miyasaka
♥ Lonely Castle in The Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
♥ Misery by Stephen King
♥ Pod by Laline Paull
♥ Somewhere South of Hell: Book1 1-3 by Ronald Kelly
♥ Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
♥ Sugar by Mia Ballard
♥ The Devil’s Backbone by Laurel Hightower, Red Lagoe, & Ronald Kelly
♥ The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
♥ The Need by Helen Phillips
♥ The Obituaries Issue #8 Dark Times by Aron Beauregard, Kristopher Triana, Daniel J. Volpe, & Briane Keene
♥ The Bees by Laline Paull
♥ We All Rot Eventually by Mia Ballard