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…
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land
Review Today I want to take a moment to note the significance of this month because we are coming up on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a…
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…
The Silence of Ghosts
Review I’ll be upfront that The Silence of Ghosts was a bit of a disappointment and it’s a shame because I was so excited to read it. I love a…
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…
The Perfect Nanny
Review I really struggled to put my thoughts together on this book, partially because The Perfect Nanny was not what I had expected and one of the more unique stories…
The Dead House
Review The Dead House is a chilling ghost story about a young woman’s descent into madness as she’s swallowed up by the wild Irish countryside. The prose in this novel…