I am going to have to read this one a few times, but that‘s also to be expected when you‘re reading a full decimation of a principle that‘s been engrained in every part of your life. Read it. Please. It‘s hard and you may not agree with the politics, but that does not make it wrong, either.

It‘s painful, but utterly necessary. Beautiful and hopeful; and this is a dive into an extremely important change of perspective that ought to inspire.

Absolutely fantastic. A good, wild romp. I particularly recommend this as a palate cleanser if you‘ve been in a rut. It‘s fast, it‘s tense, but it‘s still fun.

Mediative but enthralling all at once. I didn‘t know how much I needed a miracle before this. Now I wonder what form mine would take.

Bit of a slow starter with the kind of real-world tension that makes me want to walk away in shared discomfort, only to very vibrantly turn into the kind of horror Kate Alice Marshall does best. Very worth the read.

Wonderfully informative and entertaining, definitely a pick for a bunch of info to delight your friends and alarm your family members.

A wild ride, and a pleasure.

Straddles the line between gripping true crime and a ghost story dark and dreary enough that there has to be a deeper story and more answers.

Delightful, poignant, and mouthwatering.

I will be continuing to the sequel, but this one was a bit of a slog until the last quarter or so. Not for someone as prone to secondhand embarrassment as I am.

An old favourite I can keep going back to. Wonderfully absurd, and as The New York Post so aptly put it: when it comes to Jasper Fforde, “don‘t ask, just read it.”

Possibly the best remedy for someone trying and struggling with positivity.

Gloriously creepy and weird. I‘m desperate for more of this series.

Very informative, but very enraging.

Kind of a slow start, but well worth it.

Unfortunately you can pretty much skip half the book, as the outcome is super-predictable. But it is kinda cute, in a Nancy-Drew-with-an-attitude kind of way.

Even better than the first, balancing light-heartedness with enough emotion to make it feel more authentic than the original. You do have to read the first to get the second, but it‘s well worth it.

Eerie and tense, with a classic horror-trope of an unreliable narrator, whose unreliability becomes more and more questionable, particularly in the end.

Very dark humour, and just a little too fast-paced in my opinion: Getting to the conclusion felt like we skipped over all consequences for how we got there.

Pretty good, though not particularly creepy. Listened to the audiobook, so the narrative was a little muddled for me when time periods changed, and some things were a little heavy-handed when it came to allusions of the story, but not bad brain candy.

This was a good ride, though it stuck a little with me how mindlessly juvenile things were at times. Yes, more than likely a fair-on depiction of a cop transferring to a new precinct when that precinct is questionable, but by the third time I want to box one the garda‘s ears for being as dumb as a bag of rocks just for the sake of being contrary, it got a little old.

Quite familiar if you‘ve read more of Webb‘s material, but creepy nonetheless. Then again, I may have a bias towards finding terrifying little girls creepier than other would.

A teensy bit predictable, but still good enough that I‘m going to read the sequel.

This is a good read, if you can handle the claustrophobia of the antagonist being in a position of quite a bit of power, with a conspiracy to back them up. I am going into the sequel hoping that it won‘t perpetuate the cliffhanger, but I‘m iffy about it.

Creepy enough to keep me up until the end.

Simone St. James is definitely a great supernatural-mystery author, and between this, and Broken Girls, I am on the edge of my seat for her next entry into the genre. While I will admit I did pick up on her twist sooner than I would have liked, it was still an worthwhile read/listen.

Wonderful and beautifully dark. Reading the description last night, I ended up with nightmares (I was far too young when I first watched The Ring), but this book is not the thing of nightmares, really: it‘s twisted and dark, but the heart of it is beautiful.

I laughed for the first time in ages. Definitely worth the read/listen.

This was surprisingly delightful. I was a little shaky on it at first, as there is a bit of home invasion at the beginning and I have issues around that, but once I got through that part, it gripped me hard enough that I couldn‘t stop.

Holy shit, I loved this book. It‘s creepy without being over-done, and a whodunnit in a suspension of time as the two timelines unfold. It‘s tense without being overdrawn, and its element of the supernatural is tantalizing even though the logic of the narrative doesn‘t give it the power to cast full doubt. Definitely read it.

Great for teenage murderinos. It did have a tiny bit of drag, but the creepier blips of possible threat were peppered in nicely.

Predictable, and heavily reliant on gross-out horror instead of a good story. Disappointing.

Creepy, sardonic, and wonderfully terrifying. An absolute must for any fan of both crime and horror.

Genuinely freaky, but I can‘t say I actually enjoyed the ride.

Good grief did this kick up my wanderlust with a vengeance. Beautiful, interesting, and deliciously morbid.

I loved this. Macabre, but beautifully so.

I am a huge nerd, and I wear that title with pride. This book was wonderful, and I don‘t think I‘ve laughed as hard in a long time as I did reading this.

Not a terrible whodunnit, only made better by the mystery not only of the identity of the killer, but also of the identity of the victim. Though I did see who the victim was likely to be, the book is set up in such a way that you have rather too much of a wealth of choices for who the corpse will turn out to be, let alone who the murderer is.

This was a romp that just about harkens back to The Mummy (1999), with just enough magic and mayhem to add some kick to the wild adventure through the Carpathian Mountains. I listened to the audiobook, but I enjoyed it so much I‘ve ordered an actual copy.

I‘ll start this off bluntly: by the midway point, I skipped the end in order to get to the point of the main character finally dying. At its heart, this would be an interesting commentary on how one views the world and just how unreliable our narration on that world can be, but for a horror, there was way too much time spent navel-gazing on this, and nowhere near enough actual suspense/scare.

This one came up in my recommendations list, and it was enticing enough that I decided to give it a shot, first as an audiobook, then as a paper copy from my library. I absolutely can‘t recommend this one as an audiobook, because it does get into some grammatic visuals that don‘t quite make it through narration in my opinion. And, overall, if you don‘t have a yen towards the Christian doctrine, it‘s not that great a read.

I will start with the warning that this book is not for the faint of heart; but anyone who has read any of Christina Henry‘s remixed fairytales would likely start the same way. This is the gritty reality, even with the fairytale twist, and if you are looking for a brightly lit path to Grandma‘s house, then give this book a miss. But if you wonder what happens down those roads less travelled, then this is a book for you.

A great take on a twisted ghost story. In the first few chapters, I wasn‘t sure if I would get through it, but it somehow managed to catch me and keep me. Definitely worth a read.

To be completely frank, I read this entire series over the course of about five days, and I have neither showered nor gotten a lot of sleep, but it is over and I almost screamed (at five in the morning) when I was through. 10000%, if you have a weakness for myth, magic, and/or Y/A lit, this is a must read.

Pretty good spooky story. Very gruesome, and plenty gory (I am not squeamish under any circumstances, but it did make me cringe a few times), and it does suspense pretty well. Definitely a good pick for a fan of watching Jurassic Park after a long day (just to prove that, as bad as your day was, it‘s not as bad as theirs).

This is a solid ghostly whodunnit, I have to admit. I have read some recommendations saying that the only fully-fleshed character is the main character, but to that I have to pose the challenge: how deeply did you care to see into those around you as a teenager? Keeping that in mind, this is a pick.

Not a bad whodunnit, but the twist is a little...trite? It was sprinkled with enough misdirection for me to get my hackles up over the overdone tropes typical of murder mysteries. I‘m not panning this book simply because it was not quite as far into the tropes as I‘d feared (but it is a close thing, because it‘s really damn trope-y).

I have made a grave mistake. I haven‘t slept in two days. And now I‘ve started this book I‘m a little less than halfway through and stopping is not an option. #badlifechoicegoodreadingmaterial

If it would be plausible that your only strong-female-character would tear out your spinal cord through your throat and then make you floss with it for your portrayal and over-sexualization of her, then you may want to...not try to write female characters? Like, ever? Maybe give up the writing and just have ghostwriters who can take your ideas and make it so I don‘t have to take a silkwood shower for the violence I want to be wrought upon you?

I fucking loved this book! Like, I have been in such a rut for the last year when it comes to what I‘ve been reading; this, I could not put down and did not have to talk myself into continuing. It was creepy and thrilling and just the right amount of loose ends to make me absolutely voracious for more. If you love a good ghost story, pick this book.