The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher The good news and the bad news about this book is that it’s very much like The Twisted Ones. A freelancer moves to live in a cluttered relative’s house, and, with the help of a friendly neighbor, explores a supernatural world that can be accessed through seemingly normal terrain. …
Tag: horror
Mar 28
Book Review: The Twisted Ones
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher I don’t usually think of myself as a person who likes horror, but I loved this book. Fairies used to be scary, but thanks to Midsummer Night’s Dream, Victorian pixies, and some of the modern YA about teenage girls dating Faerie kings, they’ve veered far away from the uncanny …
Dec 30
Book Review – The Summer Before the War
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Silly me for thinking that this book would be a lighthearted and feel-good romance in the same vein as Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Simonson draws the time and place so well that one cannot imagine living in that time and place with anything other than a sense …
Aug 13
Book Review: The Merciless
The Merciless by Danielle Vega I’ve had this on my shelf forever and just picked it up by chance looking for books to cull. Randomly flipping open the page I hit upon a dark and twisted scene and decided that I was in the mood for an evil story about evil people. It starts out …
Sep 10
Book Review: The Seance
The Seance by John Harwood This definitely delivers on the Gothic horror front. It’s moody, gloomy, and has plenty of lovers who die tragically in their youth. It has a treacherous bad guy, plenty of innocent maidens, and a crumbling old wreck of a house set in the middle of the haunted wood. The story …