Published June 30, 2020 Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Narrator: Frankie Corzo Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s… Continue reading ~ Audiobook Review: Mexican Gothic ~
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Audiobook Review: The Wife Upstairs
Published January 5th 2021 Author: Rachel Hawkins Narrators: Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne, & Lauren Fortgang Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Wife Upstairs
~ Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge (2022 Edition) ~
Back in January, I decided to participate in two backlist reading challenges. The first is the TBR Knockout and the second is this Beat the Backlist reading challenge. This challenge has multiple options as there is: counting the backlist titles, following either a 24 or 52 prompt list, following either a 24 or 52 prompt… Continue reading ~ Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge (2022 Edition) ~
Book Review: Sorrowland
Published May 4th 2021 Author: Rivers Solomon Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the… Continue reading Book Review: Sorrowland
Audiobook Review: Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2)
Published August 7th 2012 Author: Kendare Blake Narrator: August Ross Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on. His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2)
Audiobook Review: Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna #1)
Published October 17th 2011 Author: Kendare Blake Narrator: August Ross Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna #1)
Audiobook Review: The Year of the Witching (Bethel #1)
Published July 21st 2020 Author: Alexis Henderson Narrator: Brianna Colette Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Year of the Witching (Bethel #1)
Audiobook Review: The Red Palace
Published January 25th 2022 Author: June Hur Narrator: Michelle H. Lee Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood... Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Red Palace
Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls (ARC)
Expected publication: October 19th 2021 Author: Lauren Blackwood What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, Andromeda quickly realizes this is a job like no other, with horrifying manifestations at… Continue reading Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls (ARC)
Audiobook Review: Phantom Heart
Published August 17th 2021 Author: Kelly Creagh Narrators: Emily Ellet, Tom Berkeley, & Michael Crouch Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42 minute Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister, Charlie, insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors at school, Stephanie isn't convinced her father's latest… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Phantom Heart
Book Review: The Last Graduate (The Scholomance #2) (ARC)
Expected publication: September 28th 2021 Author: Naomi Novik A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced… Continue reading Book Review: The Last Graduate (The Scholomance #2) (ARC)
Audiobook Review: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1)
Published September 29th 2020 Author: Naomi Novik Narrator: Anisha Dadia Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining… Continue reading Audiobook Review: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1)
Book Review: Lakesedge (World at Lake’s Edge #1) (ARC)
Expected publication: September 28th 2021 Author: Lyndall Clipstone There are monsters in the world. When Violeta Graceling arrives at haunted Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. She knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what… Continue reading Book Review: Lakesedge (World at Lake’s Edge #1) (ARC)
Audiobook Review: Small Favors
Published July 27th 2021 Author: Erin Craig Narrator: Rachel Music Audiobook Length: 14 hours 21 minutes Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range - five narrow peaks stretching into the sky like a grasping hand, bordered by a nearly impenetrable forest from which the early townsfolk fought… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Small Favors
Review: All the Murmuring Bones
Expected publication: March 9th 2021, 368 Author: A.G. Slatter Long ago Miren O'Malley's family prospered due to a deal struck with the Mer: safety for their ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and have fallen into… Continue reading Review: All the Murmuring Bones
Review: House of Salt and Sorrows
Published August 6th 2019, 406 pages Author: Erin A. Craig Four of Annaleigh Thaumas's eleven sisters have returned to the Salt, the brackish water that surrounds their lonely island home, their lives cut short, each more tragically than the last. Whispers throughout the Highmoor estate say the girls have been cursed by the gods. When… Continue reading Review: House of Salt and Sorrows
Review: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
Released April 7, 2020; 408 pages Author: Grady Hendrix Overview from Barnes and Noble Website: Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping… Continue reading Review: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
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