Book Reviews
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A story of growth, change, and acceptance – The Knave of Graves – is a profound piece of work. It starts as a slow burn but soon evolves into a harrowing exploration of right, wrong, and learning from our mistakes. The story is easy to settle into, but difficult to climb out of. I took…
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When I was younger, I often felt like stories focusing sibling relationships were hard to find. There was often too much emphasis on romantic relationships or friend groups. I am not sure how much of that is true, or just in my memory. I have a brother who I am close to and because of all of…
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It is impossible to read Meg Elison’s Number One Fan without comparing it to Stephen King’s Misery. Both feature a famous novelist kidnapped by an unhinged fan who grows increasingly terrifying over the course of the novel. Both books speak to toxicity in fandom and the entitlement some fans develop towards creators. I cannot recommend…
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Maybe I’m a sick person. Maybe there is something wrong with me. Because when I read the book’s tagline, “Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive,” it skyrocketed to the top of my to-read pile. When I read the rest…
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This one made me nostalgic for my university days! Studying in the library, chatting with my friends about ancient history, hoping to uncover something shocking and cool! I admit the nostalgia may have coloured my enjoyment of the book, but even without that, it’s a good story. Ayef dreams of being a Curator, historians who…
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This was a fun, little read: an engaging novella that can be completed in one sitting (or two). Mallory lives in a dark, post-apocalyptic world where no one sees the sun. Through climate change, the temperature of the world has risen to the point where the sun scorches, and the heat is unbearable. Driven to…
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This week, I am once again pulling from my archives. I am almost finished the writing course I’ve been taking, which will free up a lot of my writing time and let me dedicate some time to this blog. The two reviews I’m sharing today are paired together because they are rather unusual. The first,…
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Original review posted to Goodreads July 29, 2016, review written 2014. Review: I was wary of Stolen at first. The premise was of a young teenage girl who gets kidnapped by a handsome stranger and he holds her hostage in the Australian Outback until Stockholm Syndrome starts to sink its teeth into her mind.…
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It’s been a busy few weeks keeping up with my Fright Club writing assignments, so I thought I’d pull a couple of my old reviews out from the archives and post them here. Both were posted to Goodreads in August 2016, but were written before that. The books are Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones…
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S. A. Barnes is on the way to establishing herself as a master of sci-fi horror. She is the author of Dead Silence, Ghost Station, and now Cold Eternity. Her novels star complicated heroines, deep space isolation, creepy darkness, and alien horrors that send chills up the readers’ spines. I previously read and enjoyed Ghost…