A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Pages : 215 Genre : Middle Grade, Horror Stand alone My Rating :5/5 From the back of the book : The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the...
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In The Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters Pages : 387 Genre : YA, Paranormal, Historical Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 From the back of the book : In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary...
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl Pages : 602 Genre : Thriller Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 From the back of the book : On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face...
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Under the Dome by Stephen King Pages : 1074 Genre : Horror, Sci-fi Stand Alone My Rating : 4,5/5 From the back of the book : On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes...
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This is not a Test by Courtney Summers Pages : 323 Genre : YA, Horror, Zombies Stand alone My Rating : 4,5/5 From the back of the book : It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t...
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Fear by Michael Grant Pages : 509 Genre : YA, Speculative Fiction Sêries : Gone, Book 5 My Rating : 3,5/5 From the back of the book : It’s been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they’ve built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the...
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Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake Pages : 332 Genre : YA, Horror Series : Anna, Book 2 My Rating : 4/5 What it’s about : Anna is gone, and yet Cas can’t forget her. When he starts seeing her again in unexpected places, Cas first thinks he might be going crazy. But what if he wasn’t? What if Anna needed him? As his quest for answers takes him and his friends on the other side of the ocean, Cas discovers he knows very...
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Last May, when I heard there was a reading of The Stand planned for the summer, I knew that I had to join in. I had been wanting to read the book for years, but had been scared by its length. The event, organized by Trish at Love, Laughter and Insanity spanned over the months of June and July and had the cool name of Standalong. Click here to visit the end of event post and read more reviews of the book. The Standalong ended on July 27st...
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