The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Format used for this read: Audiobook) In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his best-selling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is…
The Keeper of Night
The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) A girl of two worlds, accepted by none… A half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector seeks her destiny in this haunting and compulsively readable dark fantasy duology set in 1890s Japan. Death is her destiny. Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami,…
The People We Keep
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome that her father won in a poker game. Failing out of school, picking up shifts at a local diner, she’s left fending for herself in a town where she’s never quite felt at home. When…
How To Be Eaten
How To Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire.…
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova (Format used for this read: Audiobook) The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers – not for graduations, weddings, or…
A Court of Frost and Starlight
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas (Format used for this read: Audiobook) If you read my last review (which I no joke JUST typed out about 10 minutes ago LOL), you know I am in the midst of settling into a new home after moving across the dang country. Which means…