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March 27, 2025March 27, 2025

Book Review: They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

If you can handle a book that can be very gross, pretty scary, and deeply sad, definitely give this book a read.

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March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

Book Review: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Ultimately, Our Share of Night is another example of why I don’t give books a star rating. This is a clear book and reader mismatch.

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February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

Book Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito is the kind of Gothic where every single person is terrible, and everything is terrible, and every scene is described with the most terrible words.

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November 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Book Review: Model Home by Rivers Solomon

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.

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August 26, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: Weird Women edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger

Sometimes, when choosing books for Book Bingo, I make bad decisions.

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April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

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.

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February 23, 2024February 23, 2024

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.

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February 19, 2024February 19, 2024

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.

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February 9, 2024February 9, 2024

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.

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December 28, 2021January 19, 2022

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:

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