Book Reviews

I'm in the midst of a month-long book binge. Some of you may have heard of Sarah J. Maas, and accordingly, you might be aware of her Court of Thorn and Roses series. With her latest instalment [...]

One of the things that frustrates me about the horror genre is that we sometimes fail to include everyday horror under the umbrella. When I talk to people about what they read and what they like [...]

In the effort to broaden my understanding of the masters of horror, I've been dipping into some older work to read and learn more about the evolution of the genre and the people who've shaped [...]

I suspect that if you hang around YA fiction long enough you start seeing trends becoming apparent. Certain creatures become all the range for a while, then they go dormant and let something else [...]

Oh no, I thought. Another book about the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Horror of horrors. Why did I request this title on NetGalley, what was I thinking, etc. (Have I mentioned my pessimistic side [...]

The closer we get to Halloween, the more I feel like I need to ratchet up the number of reviews I’m putting forth that deal specifically with horror: there’s a higher demand for it as we approach [...]

As an opening note: I'm infatuated with all things death-related. Death culture, mortuary traditions, practices of commemoration -- it's my jam. Back in university I wrote a paper on Los Dias de [...]

By the blessings of NetGalley, I landed several approvals in a row for a bunch of great young adult books. Among them was The Graces by Laure Eve. After losing my mind for a solid five minutes, I [...]

There are few things I'm super obsessed with in the folklore category. Having such a short list of things that preoccupy me makes me very ardent about those few things, and The Highgate Vampire [...]

I'd like to open this review with the acknowledgement that if you try to hold an author's previous work against the current, you're probably doing yourself a disservice in that you're already [...]

By the look of my to-be-read pile, I might have to open up the YA section of my book reviews to include all varieties of young adult books, because Dumplin' by Julie Murphy sure isn't horror.

To begin with, I'd like to open with the old expectations versus reality discussion, in which I admit frankly that the flavour of the book had leanings towards folk horror and I was thoroughly [...]

I devoured Down with the Shine by Kate Karyus Quinn. I knocked this thing back like it was three fingers of moonshine and then breathed fire for it. The short version: the book is brilliant. [...]

I lost my Alexandra Bracken v-card not with the Darkest Minds trilogy (as I'd planned) but with Passenger. Maybe I should have saved myself. Let me tell you how I really feel about Passenger by [...]

I'm a fan of j-horror. I'm happy to admit that right off the bat: there are very few forms of popular horror that really get under my skin, especially in film, and the few that do tend to linger. [...]

Regency, what? I usually take "regency" anything as an alliteration. Regency + Romance. Well, thankfully there's none of that here. Or at least, it's in a very small concentrated dose, which, for [...]

This book review is as much a story within a story as it is a review. I picked up Seed by Ania Ahlborn not because of the book, though the summary was appealing, but because of the author's AMA [...]

I think it's true that we often to gravitate towards similar subject matter to what we're writing. Why, you might ask, am I reviewing a book I've classified as magical reality when I've committed [...]