Category: Reviews
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“How cheap is life to someone who could do this? How entitled is the man who can treat another soul like a tool to be employed and then discarded when it breaks? How could one be so blind as to love such a man?” – Tim McGregor, Eynhallow Plot Summary Agnes Tulloch lives an incredibly…
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Last March, I was scrolling through the r/horrorlit subreddit, when I saw someone mention a book called Ghosts of East Baltimore. Considering I spent the first 20 years of my life growing up on the southwest side of the city, I immediately was intrigued by this title and looked it up right away. The cover…
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“Perhaps I am meant to drown after all. But if I do, then at least it will have been by my own hand” – C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny Plot Summary London, 1853. A time of plentiful scientific discovery. Every single day, new scientists are coming forward with new theories and exhibitions to help further…
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“People thought life was a miracle, but it wasn’t. Life was everywhere. The miracle was knowing you were alive. Sentience. Mind. That was the rare, precious gift.” Plot Summary Children around the world are suddenly dropping dead, struck down by a mysterious illness aptly named Herod’s Syndrome. It spreads rapidly, killing every single child under…
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“Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us together” Linghun by Ai Jiang follows multiple characters who reside in the town of HOME, a town infamous for its susceptibility to hauntings. People move to HOME in hopes of reuniting with their deceased loved ones, and Wendqi’s family is…
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“On the day of my first period, I was more dead doe than human woman. Was womanhood always so violent, raw?” Plot Summary Ren Yu is a teenage athlete, one of the stars of her school’s swim team. Swimming is everything to her: her escape from the banality of day-to-day life, her meal ticket to…
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Plot Summary Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Finders Keepers detective agency puts operations on a temporary hold. Holly Gibney is on bereavement leave after the death of her mother, which has left her to grapple with some deeply complex feelings towards their relationship. Her partner Pete is currently infected and unable to provide any assistance.…
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“Rage does not do it justice. Fury. Frenzy. Savagery. Madness. Spleen. Bile. Wrath. There is no word for what fills me.” Plot Synopsis Maeve Fly is living a double life. She spends her days working as a princess entertaining children at the happiest place on Earth. She spends her evenings haunting the Sunset Strip and…
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Kristopher Triana’s novel Gone to See the River Man is about Lori, a young woman who has built up a correspondence with serial killer Edmund Cox during his prison sentence. Despite Edmund’s especially cruel history, Lori finds herself desperate to prove her loyalty to him. So when Edmund gives her the task of retrieving a…
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“When you’re sad, you cry. When you’re happy, you smile, you laugh. But what do you do when you’re angry? Not just mad, but filled with this ugly, consuming rage?” Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison follows Rory Morris as she returns to her hometown to provide support for her pregnant twin sister, Scarlett. On…
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