The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender Pages : 329 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Delia’s new house isn’t just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females—an insane asylum nicknamed “Hysteria Hall.” However, many of the inmates were not insane, just defiant and strong willed. Kind of like Delia herself. But the house still wants to...

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich Pages : 400 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Three students: dead. Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace. Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, “the girl of nowhere.” Kaitlyn’s diary, discovered in...

The Call by Peadar O’Guilin Pages : 312 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : 3 minutes and 4 seconds. The length of time every teenager is ‘Called’, from the moment they vanish to the moment they reappear. 9 out of 10 children return dead. Even the survivors are changed. The nation must survive. Nessa, Megan and Anto are at a training school – to give them some chance to fight...

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris Pages : 304 Genre : Psychological Thriller Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace: he has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Picture this: a dinner party at their perfect home, the...

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Pages : 342 Genre : Sci-fi, Thriller Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In...

Red Rising by Pierce Brown Pages : 382 Genre : Sci-fi/Fantasy Series : Red Rising, book 1 My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already...

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey Pages : 320 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Meet Maud. Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable–or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there’s one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her...

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell Pages : 320 Genre : Mystery, Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a...