This is a well-written, well-paced, thought-provoking book which is also probably the most disturbing and joyless thing I’ve read all year.
Tag: horror
Book Review: Weird Women edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
Sometimes, when choosing books for Book Bingo, I make bad decisions.
Book Review: A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
As you might have guessed from the title, A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock is about Frankensteining up a monster out of plants and mushrooms.
Book Review: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
At this point, I am pretty sure I have read everything T. Kingfisher has published and I’ll continue to do so. She basically never disappoints, and this is just one more in a series of hits.
Book Review: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
Basically, however you felt about Hollow Kingdom, you will probably feel the same way about Feral Creatures. There. That’s it. That’s the review.
Book Review: The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka
The Parliament is described as “The Birds meets The Princess Bride”. And yes, I guess that’s true in a sense, in that there are killer birds, and there is a story within a story. But let’s unpack that.
Book Review: The Death of Jane Lawrence
One genre of horror that I usually do pretty well with is the gothic, and The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling is a recent release in a classic gothic mold. It has all of the requisite elements for a good gothic:
Book Review: What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
What Big Teeth pulled me in almost immediately. There’s a short, intense prologue, and then a delightfully Gothic first chapter that let me know I was in for a good dark fantasy/horror read.
Book Review: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Entertainment Weekly called The Echo Wife “a trippy domestic thriller”, and while it is definitely a twist on the domestic thriller genre, it also has elements of science fiction and horror and even literary fiction. Oh, it is also, as I repeatedly told my spouse while I read, “so f*cked up”, but in a good way.