I was thrilled to get another book written by Uketsu. The first book, Strange Pictures, was really good, and I enjoyed every bit of it, so as you can imagine, my expectations were high. This book is structured similarly to his last book.In this story, we also follow pictures, but of floor plans. Our narrator is…
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Masterpiece debut from Uketsu
This is it. One of the best reads in this year so far! I am talking about Strange Pictures by Uketsu. You might think Who is he? Yeah, it was my question too. Never heard of him before this book. Uketsu is a mysterious Japanese author, but his journey began with a YouTube channel where…
Barclay Linwood and his trains
Before that book, I never heard about Linwood Barclay. I saw online some new books coming out, and people were praising Linwood for such good writing skills and just in general good books. As you can imagine, I got intrigued. I waited two days, and when the book became available on Kindle, I purchased it…
The eyes are the best part by Monika Kim
Ji-won’s life turns upside down after her father leaves the family to live with his mistress. Ji-won is left alone with her mother and younger sister Ji-hyun. Her mother (Umma) is a mess, and her younger sister needs someone to help her through a tough time, as she is hurt and confused. Ji-won’s life becomes…
Alternative to meat? Tender is the flesh
Marcos lives in a world where all of the animals become toxic for humans to eat, and they all need to be killed. It did not matter if they were your friendly dog, a noisy neighbour’s cat or a cow that was meant to be eaten. Even animals living in the zoo were a danger…
Letdown in Pages: My Take on Library at Hellebore
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw is my first book from this author. I have seen some reviews about her writing style before, and that is not everyone’s cup of tea. As I had never read anything from this author, the new release was an exciting time to try it out. It was released…
The twisted tale of survival in Stephen King’s Misery
This is one of the books that I was really excited to read. Why? A single sentence made me want to read it: the book’s premises are settled in just one room. I was really excited to see how King made this story work. If it is interesting to read, and more importantly, how he…
Lost in Abyss: A Frustrating Dive into Unanswered Questions and Unmemorable Characters
The first Nick Cutter book I read was The Troop, and it is still one of my favourite books to this day. I loved everything about that book, so I had really high hopes for this book. Let’s start with what is this book about? A weird disease called ‘Gets (short for forgets) is spreading…
Another Reddit book: Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
“Penpal” by Dathan Auerbach is a novel based on a series of stories posted on r/nosleep forum on Reddit in 2011. The post went viral, as we would say today, and Auerbach continued to post more stories, eventually choosing to expand the Reddit stories into a full-length novel.To finance the book’s publication, Auerbach chose to…
Would you taste good as a pie?- The Lamb by Lucy Rose
On paper, this book looks like a banger! It has an eerie isolated house near woods, cannibalism, a mother who has a hunger for people, and a child who was brought into this weird dysfunctional family and eats people too. And the hook… Yeah, the hook got me! ‘On my fourth birthday, I plucked six…