“They tried to kill me, Hellie.” she rasped as she slid into the dark. That means I get to try to kill them.Ninth House p.160 Ninth HouseLeigh Bardugo My first Bardugo read! I’ve tried getting in to the Grishaverse to little success, but Ninth House has been staring me down from its place in my…
Tag: horror
Book Review: A Deadly Education [no spoilers]
A Deadly EducationNaomi Novik Come scream with me about this book, practically perfect in every regard. Typically, I use the GoodReads blurb in the next section, but honestly, I think how I pitched it to a friend does a much better job at conveying the overall dire and dry wit tone of the book: During…
Comic Review: When I Arrived at the Castle
“It has a stink you know…Your meekness. It makes me want to vomit.” When I Arrived at the Castle Emily Carroll On a dark rainy night, a young lady is welcomed into a castle, a young lady who has come to murder a countess, like the many before her who never returned. For those of…
Book Review: The Screaming Staircase
Lockwood & Co. #1: The Screaming Staircase Jonathan Stroud No one knows how The Problem began. Sure, ghosts and specters always seemed to exist on the periphery of society, but that all changed fifty years ago when a massive surge of ghosts began causing real trouble for the living. Children and teens gifted with psychic…
Book Review: The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman Nobody “Bod” Owens has had an unconventional childhood, to say the least. The lone survivor of his entire family’s mass murder, he is taken in by the community’s host of ghosts as a baby. Given the Gift of the Graveyard, Bod is raised by the two married Owens ghosts, and…
The Little Book Witch 