
Title: Monsters
Author: Emerald Fennell
Genre: Horror
Number of Pages: 340
Rating: A+
Recommended?: Yes

Title: Monsters
Author: Emerald Fennell
Genre: Horror
Number of Pages: 340
Rating: A+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Author: Susin Nielsen
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 256
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: This Is Where We Talk Things Out
Author: Caitlin Marceau
Genre: Horror Novella
Number of Pages: 114
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Batshit crazy mother. Isolated locale. Impending snowstorm. What could possibly go wrong?
This Is Where We Talk Things Out is an engaging psychological horror novella about a woman, Miller, drawn back into a toxic relationship with her mentally disturbed mother Sylvie. Miller’s girlfriend Florence warns her against getting sucked back into Sylvie’s drama, but she reluctantly decides to give her one last chance in a long series of last chances. But when Sylvie’s behavior gets more and more out-of-control, Miller finds herself fighting for her life.
The big reveal of this story was… not surprising. I didn’t mind, though. The predictability didn’t get in the way of me enjoying the book. I liked that even though Sylvie’s homophobic attitudes towards her daughter are touched upon there wasn’t a huge focus on that aspect of the story. The mother-daughter relationship felt very realistic and very uncomfortable. It only jumped the shark a bit and allowed the situation to become borderline cartoonish in the last 10 pages or so. Still, a fun read with some genuinely spooky and disturbing moments.
Title: Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Author: Riku Onda
Genre: Psychological Thrillers
Number of Pages: 204
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: The Last House on Needless Street
Author: Catriona Ward
Genre: Psychological Thrillers
Number of Pages: 341
Rating: A-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder
Author: Sarah J. Harris
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Number of Pages: 359
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Bedfellow
Author: Jeremy C. Shipp
Genre: Horror Novella
Number of Pages: 224
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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A psychological pseudo-horror story about a family whose trauma seems to coincide with the arrival of a strange cat.
Title: You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood
Author: Eric LaRocca
Genre: Horror
Number of Pages: 236
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Closer to Nowhere
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Genre: Middle Grade Books in Verse
Number of Pages: 416
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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