Blurb: Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she’s asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow’s phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it’s everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting…… Continue reading The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates – A Book Review
Blurb: When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in…… Continue reading What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher – A Book Review
Over the course of the year, I’ve found it a bit of a struggle to get into the reading mindset. Audio books have been a lifeline for me as far as books go and I can get through those at an absolutely absurd rate. I suddenly feel like I’m coming into more of a flow…… Continue reading Book Haul – Trying to get my motivation back
Blurb: BOOKS CAN BE DEADLY From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride. In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control…… Continue reading Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi – A Book Review
I managed to dodge Covid’s embrace right up until this past weekend. I started feeling incredibly fatigued during the week and the weekend had it so I couldn’t really do much other than sleep and dream of being awake and not achy. A covid test showed up positive and I’ve been in bed ever since.…… Continue reading Covid Finally Got Me
Blurb: In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world. Twelve-year-old Sidney Parsons was savagely murdered by two boys his own age. No reason was ever given for this terrible crime, and the ‘Demonic Duo’ who killed him were…… Continue reading Demon by Matt Wesolowski – A Book Review
Blurb: Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history’s weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How much horse manure was splattered on the streets of Tudor London?…… Continue reading Ask A Historian by Greg Jenner – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: ‘They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.’ Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl…… Continue reading Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett – A Book Review
Today, at 1 minute past midnight, marks the 34th anniversary of when a little, tiny version of me, was dragged kicking and screaming into the world. In recognition of what must have been a traumatic experience for my infant self, I have decided to take the week off from work. I bought a huge lemon…… Continue reading Happy Birthday to me
Blurb: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and suave, courageous and unpredictable, Chapman was by turns a traitor, a hero, a villain and a man of…… Continue reading Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre – An Audio Book Review
Swords & Spectres 