Category: 10/10 Reviews

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The September House

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You might like this book if you liked… The September House by Carissa Orlando The September House is a horror novel about Margaret, a middle-aged woman who has been living in a haunted house with her husband since they fell in love with it four years previously and purchased it to be their “forever house”. After the first September there, Margaret and her husband Hal discovered that the house is haunted with an entire host of spirits. Some of the spirits are benign, like the housekeeper Fredricka who makes Margaret tea and keeps the linens changed, but some are far … Continue reading The September House

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2024 New Releases: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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You might like this book if you liked… The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a historical fantasy novel about Sana, a teenage girl who moves into an old house with her father, where a doctor and several older women have been living. Sana is curious about the new house where she lives with all of its oddities – noises at night, a history that no one seems to be able to remember, a room that has been shut off from the rest of the house, and large bones that were … Continue reading 2024 New Releases: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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The Mystery Guest

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You might like this book if you liked… The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose The Mystery Guest is a novel about Molly Gray, a young autistic woman in her mid-twenties who has worked at the Regency Grand Hotel as a maid. In the first novel in the series, The Maid, Molly is accused of a murder that happens at the hotel. In The Mystery Guest, a famous author has scheduled a press release at the Regency Grand Hotel, but before he can make his announcement, he drops dead in front of the crowd. Molly immediately is caught up in the … Continue reading The Mystery Guest

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Holly

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You might like this book if you liked… Holly by Stephen King Holly is a mystery novel following Holly Gibney, an autistic woman turned investigator in the Bill Hodges series, and the lead investigator in The Outsider. Holly receives a call from Penny Dahl, a distraught mother whose young adult daughter Bonnie has gone missing. Despite having just lost her own mother to covid, Holly agrees to look into Bonnie’s disappearance. It doesn’t take Holly long to discover that Bonnie is only one of several missing individuals over nearly a decade with eerily similar lifestyles and circumstances. Holly finds herself … Continue reading Holly

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Ghost Stories by Indigenous Authors: The Sentence

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You might like this book if you liked… The Sentence by Louise Erdrich The Sentence is a novel about Tookie, a middle-aged Ojibwe woman who is sentenced to sixty years in prison after she is tricked into committing a federal crime. While in prison, she develops a deep love of literature of all kinds. Thanks to the efforts by her court appointed lawyer, she is released after only ten years, and takes a job at a bookstore in Milwaukee, where she meets Flora, a a white woman who is obsessed with native history and culture to the point where she … Continue reading Ghost Stories by Indigenous Authors: The Sentence

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A House With Good Bones

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You might like this book if you liked… A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher A House With Good Bones is a gothic horror novel about Sam, a thirty-two year old woman working as a paleo-entomologist who returns to her mother’s home to wait out a work furlough, only to discover that something has gone seriously wrong in her mother’s house. Although her mother has lived in the house for twenty years after Sam’s grandmother’s death, Sam’s mother has painted all of the walls white, returned much of the decor to the way it looked before her grandmother’s death, … Continue reading A House With Good Bones

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Night Will Find You

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You might like this book if you liked… Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. In no way did this affect my review or my rating of the novel. Night Will Find You is a mystery novel about a woman named Vivy Bouchet, an astrophysicist who has inherited from her mother the ability to communicate with ghosts. When Vivvy was a child, she saved a boy’s life with a prediction from her visions. That boy is now a cop who is convinced that … Continue reading Night Will Find You

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When Women Were Dragons

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You might like this book if you liked… When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill When Women Were Dragons is a fantasy novel set in the 1950s in America, when women all over the country suddenly turn into dragons, causing mass destruction before flying off to enjoy their freedom. Alex is a young girl at that time whose life is turned upside down when her aunt dragons, leaving behind her infant daughter to be raised by Alex’s family. Speaking of dragons and women’s ability to dragon is taboo, on par with discussing other feminine processes like menstruation or puberty, and … Continue reading When Women Were Dragons

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The Lindberg Nanny

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You might like this book if you liked… The Lindberg Nanny by Mariah Fredericks The Lindberg Nanny is a historical fiction novel about Betty Gow, a Scottish immigrant woman in her late twenties who has been hired to be the nanny to the son of famous Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Ann Morrow Lindbergh. The child, known as Charlie, is the most famous toddler in the country in 1932, and when he is kidnapped in the middle of the night, the police immediately suspect that someone in the household assisted the kidnappers. Betty is blamed for the crime by the … Continue reading The Lindberg Nanny

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Thanksgiving Read: The Prophets

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Samuel let go. “Well, since we up, we might as well…” he gestured at the plantation broadly.Isaiah took Samuel’s hand again and kissed it.“Not in the light,” Samuel said with a frown.Isaiah shook his head. “There’s no bottom below bottom.”Samuel sighed, handed Isaiah the broom, and walked outside into the morning, onto which a humid sky was descending. “Don’t feel like doing this.”What?” Isaiah asked, following behind him.“This.” Samuel pointed outward at everything around them.“We gotta do it,” Isaiah replied.Samuel shook his head. “We ain’t gotta do shit.”“So you risk whoopin’, then? You forget we ain’t even gotta do this … Continue reading Thanksgiving Read: The Prophets