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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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The Evil Lives! by R.L. Stine

The Evil Lives! by R.L. Stine

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Well this was a wild ride. I do think that since Stine did not revisit this series for a bit, things got wonky here in terms of continuity errors that I was going, what the world about. All of them were concerning Sarah Fear that we learned about in the Fear Street Cheerleaders trilogy. I don’t know why Stine did this, maybe to have a new spin on things. But it didn’t work because I still own all of the Fear Street Cheerleader books so […]

A Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot

A Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot

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Trigger warning: Rape This is going to be my last book in this series. I got interested in the character of Mercy Kilpatrick since she popped up in a Bree Taggert book. But this was just all over the place. I didn’t like the plot following these preppers who often in real life are racist as anything. I think Elliot skipped that whole thing purposefully because I think she thought she was doing something with hey preppers got good points about making sure they grow […]

Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh

Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh

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“Beyond Her Reach” follows Bree and her deputies after they are called to a murder scene where the victim was practically decapitated. The victim was dealing with a contentious divorce and seemed to have a new boyfriend who wasn’t that into her as she maybe was. The book follows Bree as they try to hunt down the killer before they strike again. Well I wasn’t in the mood to wait on another book so just swapped this one for a planned read. Eh. This was […]

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

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Well, I got nothing honestly. This was not a very good book. The premise was cool (serial killer that can time travel) and all of that, but the execution of said premise didn’t work out and I found myself not liking Kirby (the final girl as horror fans like to say). The other women/girls who were murdered were not given a lot to do but die. Also, there was way too many things that were left open-ended, i.e. why is this man able to do […]

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold

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Wow. I really loved Rubenhold’s other historical novel following the women who were victims of Jack the Ripper. This one felt very separate and I didn’t feel like I got any particular insight into his second wife Cora at all. I wish that we hadn’t spent so much time devoted to Crippen’s mistress. It seemed very obvious to me she knew what Crippen did. I wish we had followed up with her family a bit more. I do have to say that this is the […]

Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night

Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night by Stephanie Rose

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I am in annual training right now and barely slept so I am going to post an overall review on the collection as a whole and will come back later to rate each story individually at a later time. I have to say that Rose did a great job with evoking Halloween and many of the adult readers memories of horror books and short stories that shaped many […]



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