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…
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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…
Could you sell a haunted house?
In this novel, we can see a complicated relationship between siblings. Louise and Mark never saw eye to eye, and their relationship grew more distant over the years. Now they will have to work together because their parents just died in a car crash, and they have to meet and figure out what to do…
Grady Hendrix and Witches
This is my first Grady Hendrix book, and I was super excited to read it. For quite some time, I heard a lot of good opinions about his books and writing style, so when Witchcraft for Wayward Girls came out, I waited for a few weeks before I bought it myself so I could get…
When Reddit wants your book- Felix Blackwell Stolen Tongues
A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned. High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby, the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark…