The Sleeper and the Spindle
Review The Sleeper and the Spindle was a wonderful surprise and I'm so happy that I picked this book up. The story is a fairy tale reimagining of both Snow…
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Review Women & Power is a pair of essays by classicist Mary Beard and it is a great example of how history can provide context for the present day. The…
What Good Girls Do
Review What Good Girls Do is an absolutely brutal book, both in the subject matter and in the way that it is written. The book is told through the dual…
Goblin Market
Review My goodness, what a beautiful and surprising poem this is. The Goblin Market is a classic poem filled to the brim with enchanting rhymes and fairytale-like imagery. It tells…
Ritual
Review Ritual is one of those books that was truly difficult for me to categorize and sort my thoughts on. The plot was intriguing but the writing was seriously bogged…
Three: 3 extreme horrors
Review I had been really wanting to read more extreme indie horror and was happy to come across this one. After reading though I was left feeling conflicted and a…
Dear Laura
Review Dear Laura is an emotionally harsh novella about grief and trauma. The story follows a young girl who witnesses the abduction of her best friend and first love, an…
Snow, Glass, Apples
Review I really love when fairy tale retellings play with my expectations, mixing up the story to provide something fresh and new. Snow White is an icon of classic fairy…
The Darkest Lies
Review You know that age in every teenager's life where they start to become a little bit rebellious? Telling little white lies, sneaking out, hanging out with crowds they know…
Our Wives Under the Sea
Review Our Wives Under the Sea is a grotesquely beautiful literary horror novel. This book didn't contain the blood and gore of so much of the horror genre, but instead…