Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Pages : 355 Genre : YA, Fantasy Series : Hush, Hush, book 1 My Rating : What it’s about, in my Words : When Nora gets paired up with Patch in biology class, she is more than displeased : not only is she unfairly split from her best friend Vee, she also has to work with the most rude, uncooperative guy you can imagine. Only, Nora fins herself more and more attracted to the mystery that is Patch : both sexy and...
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Pages : 766 Genre : Fiction, Vampires, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic First in a series My Rating : In short : Post-apocalyptic setting involving zombie-vampires, a bunch of survivors and a 100 years old teenager. From the Back of the Book : First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of...
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Bad Girls don’t Die by Katie Alender Pages : 346 Genre : Horror, YA My Rating : Lately, Alexis’ sister has been acting weirder and weirder. Let alone the fact that her eyes inexplicably seem to change color from time to time, she’s been acting strange, using words she normally wouldn’t and loosing track of time. Soon, Alexis realizes something evil is taking over her sister, and she’ll need all the help she can...
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The Ghost Writer by John Harwood Pages : 369 Genre : Mystery, Horror, Ghost story My Rating : Gerard Freeman grows up on the windswept southern coast of Australia in the late 20th century with a controlling mother strangely silent about the details of her childhood in England. His only solace is steadfast English pen friend, Alice, to whom he confides everything. What was Gerard’s mother, Phyllis, hoping to escape when she left...
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The Devouring by Simon Holt Pages : 231 Genre : Young Adults, Horror My Rating : I picked up The Devouring with no expectations. I think I saw the cover in a “Lookalike” at Pop Culture Junkie, but I had no idea what the book was about. So I read the dust jacket and decided to give it a try. When Reggie reads about the Vours in a mysterious old journal, she assumes they are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic. But when her...
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman Pages : 162 Genre : children, fantasy, horror My Rating : Coraline was my first read for the 24 hours read-a-thon, and what a read! Well written, original, scary, amusing, magical, are all words I could use to describe this book. There are few modern tales I could compare to the classical ones that I lived for as a kid, but Coraline certainly is one of those. It’s one of those stories I’ll read again and...
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