Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
I read Kali Wallace’s Dead Space last year and really liked it, so I picked this one out from the library without even reading the blurb. It was completely unexpected (no space!), but I liked this one too. Breezy was a pretty typical teenage (16/17) girl, dealing with high school, sisters, and a best friend who isn’t all that nice to her (why do we all fall for that at that age?). Then, all of a sudden, she wakes up in a shallow grave a […]
Jujutsu Kaisen, vols. 0-12 by Gege Akutami
I’ve been seeing comments about the anime for Jujustsu Kaisen is the best thing ever this year, so when I saw almost the first 12 books in the manga series at the library, I decided to try it out. As it turns out the whole thing is relatively formulaic (enough that missing volumes 3, 4, and 11 didn’t seem to matter a whole lot) but still has enough personality to be interesting. The basic gist is that Yuji Itadori who has just lost his grandfather […]
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
It’s the mid eighties, the land of Stranger Things nostalgia, and eight year old Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (aka The Brat) has just discovered something interesting: if she hops on her bike and cycles through to a certain spot in the woods by the river, a magic bridge will appear. Whenever something has been lost all Vic has to do is cross the bridge and she will end up where the lost object is. But something else is lost as well: across the country, young children […]
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
I’ve owned this book for 20 years probably, and I think this was my third read through. It is a collection of short stories and some of King’ s earliest work, and the stories are of widely varying quality. Some made me roll my eyes, some left me indifferent, and some were gripping, but there is one I dislike immensely, and two that I kind of love. The one I dislike is the well-known and apparently popular “The Mist”, which takes up about 150 pages […]
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Apparently 2022 is the year I decided to become a Leigh Bardugo fangirl. So far I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy as well as the Six of Crows duology from her Grishaverse, and now without even planning it I’ve read another Bardugo novel. I have literally no idea why or when I added this to my library queue, other than that I first put it on hold before reading any of her other books, and I was probably half way through it before I […]
The Tiger Came to the Mountains (The Trespass Collection, #1) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Wildlife (The Trespass Collection, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer
The Backbone of the World (The Trespass Collection, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones
Stag (The Trespass Collection, #4) by Karen Russell
A Righteous Man (The Trespass Collection, #5) by Tochi Onyebuchi
Bloody Summer (The Trespass Collection, #6) by Carmen Maria Machado
As mentioned in this post’s title, I saw these covers and immediately went OOOOH. Click click click. Free? Okay! Also, the idea of various genres of story that deal with nature and wildlife clashing with humans appeals to me. I did four of them by audio, and all four narrators were excellent (even for the one I two-starred), and two by Kindle. If you have Prime, they are free for you. Some of them really surprised me! “Wildlife,” by Jeff VanderMeer — 2 STARS This […]
