Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—even if no one knows it but them. Only one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Maria and…
Graphic Novel Review: ‘Through the Woods’ by Emily Carroll
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars IT CAME FROM THE WOODS. Most strange things do. Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. Come, take a walk in the woods, and see what awaits YOU…
Book Club Chatter #3: ’20th Century Ghosts’ by Joe Hill
I was excited about this month’s book club. I missed the meeting for An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth because I didn’t manage to buy the book in time, never mind read it. I wasn’t devastated because I wasn’t overly…
Review: ‘NOS4R2’ by Joe Hill
Rating: A big, fat 5 stars out of 5 Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a…
R. I. P. IX: Wrap-up
Gorgeous artwork courtesy ofthe super talented Abigail Larson You might wonder why I’m wrapping up at all given that it’s already 9th November and I’m over a week late at checking in my spooky adventures but we spent the weekend…
Review: ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ by Ray Bradbury
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars It’s the week before Hallowe’en, and Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled……
RIP VIII: The Aftermath
I was super excited about RIP VIII back at the beginning of September, despite having a life-long aversion to anything that relates even remotely to things going bump in the night. I think that what blogging is teaching me…
YA Book Review: ‘This Is Not A Test’ by Courtney Summers
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsSynopsis 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…
Hallowe’en Recommendations for those of a Wimpy Persuasion
Find your own scary cushion here If there is one thing I have learnt during my 26 years, it is that I am not good at reading/watching horror. Years ago, I was bullied persuaded to go and see The Hills…
Review: ‘The Man in the Picture’ by Susan Hill
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver’s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter’s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the…