Horror – Page 118 – Cannonball Read 17

with this post, you will know every book i read this year and how i felt about them

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez

Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

N or M? by Agatha Christie

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

November 27, 2021 by Jenna 1 Comment

You’ve probably heard of this one already. Woman takes the regional train to and from work every day and watches for a couple who live on a house backing the tracks. She likes to make up stories about what they’re doing every day. One day she sees the wife kissing a man who’s not her husband. Because her previous marriage ended due to infidelity, the main character goes to confront the wife, whom she does not know, but her alcoholism intervenes and she blacks out […]

Just….No.

Later by Stephen King

November 27, 2021 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

I love Stephen King. I have loved his books practically my whole life. The Stand and It still hold up, as well as some of his other books and short stories. But his book Later is no classic. I would call it terrible, but it’s more inert than that. Later follows narrator Jamie Conklin from childhood to his early 20s. Jamie can see and talk to the dead (just like The Sixth Sense, which is mentioned). The dead must always tell him the truth, and […]

A Plague of Monsters and maybe Magic

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giebrecht

November 23, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have to honest and admit that I did not read this thoroughly, more like slow skimmed. The Monster of Elendhaven was described as “dark”, “humorous”, “rotten with magic”; these descriptors match some things I’ve read and enjoyed. This novella is most definitely more the ‘dark’, as in horror. The setting is Elendhaven, somewhere around the North Pole, where some sort of seriously nasty plague caused by a magic eruption of some sort that either kills people or essentially mutates the survivors. Being a sorcerer […]

Unfortunately, this one was just meh for me.

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

November 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I actually don’t have too much to say about this one because it didn’t really hit for me. I’m not really sure why, because I’ve liked everything else P. Djèlí Clark has written (Ring Shout was the last thing of his I hadn’t yet read). And I mean, I didn’t not like it, but it’s never really a good sign when your reader is liking your world-building and the alternate history aspects of your story more than your actual story, and more than the characters. […]

“You can. Stop fighting the tide, Nella. Once you stop fighting—once you let this wave wash over you—you’ll see. It’ll wash over you so quickly, you won’t even feel it.”

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

November 17, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

It took me about a month to let this one simmer in the back of my mind before ultimately deciding to round up to four stars. The small thing that threw me at first is overshadowed by how much the ending has stuck with me, and how powerful the implications of that ending are. This one starts out pretty simply with our main character Nella, who works in the otherwise all-white workplace of an influential publishing house based in NYC, excited that another Black woman […]

Esteban and Tristan went into this nightmare and came out with more than they bargained for

The Nightmare Brigade #1: The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu by Frank Thillez

November 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I first found The Nightmare Brigade #1: The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu by Frank Thillez, and illustrated by Yomgui Dumont as a preview e-reader. I was so in love with the start that I emailed the address at the bottom of the link sent to tell them! A few months later, chapters one and two were available in a full e-reader. (And once again, I recommend signing up for the newsletter from Papercutz if you and/or a child in your life likes […]

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