Book reviews
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Review: Watching Evil Dead by Josh Malerman
Watching Evil Dead is kind of a book on the creative life, kind of a meditation on love, and kind of a memoir about a specific night. Josh Malerman is among my favorite modern horror writers, and I was so excited to read some of his nonfiction. I don’t normally…
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Review: Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel
Cousins Maeve and Andrea were inseparable as children. They lived together and played together; they were almost like sisters. They made promises that nothing would ever separate them. Except something did, something that was out of their control. Maeve looked for her best friend for years afterward but never found…
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Review: Waif by Samantha Kolesnik
Angie is married to a startlingly rich and abusive man. She’s not attracted to him anymore, so it’s no surprise when she sees a man at the grocery store who appears to be everything she’s ever fantasized about. When she tells her husband about this encounter, he starts making changes…
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Review: False Witness by Karin Slaughter
Light spoilers to follow. I’ve only read one other book by Karin Slaughter, and I loved it. It was tight, well-plotted, a little corny, but so much more than I expected. It sold me on Slaughter’s writing. I have a hard time reading more than one book by the same…
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Review: The Beast in Aisle 34 by Darrin Doyle
Sandy is new to this whole werewolf thing. Until six months ago he was just a regular guy – he had a job at Lowe’s, two drinking buddies, and a strained marriage. When an unexpected act of violence occurs, Sandy has to make a choice. Being a werewolf makes Sandy…
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Review: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
At the end of Needless Street, before you get to the forest, there is a house. The man who lives in that house is lonely. Sure, he has a cat, and his daughter comes to visit sometimes, but Ted wants to find that special someone. Then, a woman moves in…
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Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Jade Daniels is an Indigenous slasher-obsessed senior in high school trying to survive in her small Idaho town. She’s got a loser dad, a dirty job, and she just might not graduate after all. A moneyed housing development is being built across the lake, right next to the now defunct…
She Reads At Midnight 