I loved this short story from Stephen Graham Jones. I'm a runner not a cyclist, and damn it, now I want a bike.
I've never experienced so much suspenseI loved this short story from Stephen Graham Jones. I'm a runner not a cyclist, and damn it, now I want a bike.
I've never experienced so much suspense in a bike ride before. I swear this entire tale could have just been the main character chasing after a creature of the night on a bicycle and I would have loved it. There was a bit more to The Night Cyclist than that, though.
Everything about this story felt authentic - from the restaurant field (the main character is a chef) to what it must really feel like to be a cyclist.
The Night Cyclist weighs in at 32 pages. I would only recommend it to folks who love reading short stories, but I do without a doubt recommend it. I laid down my $.99 so I could read it on my Kindle, but you can read it for free on Tor's website here: https://www.tor.com/2016/09/21/the-night-cyclist/
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I loved this short story from Stephen Graham Jones. I'm a runner not a cyclist, and damn it, now I want a bike.
I've never experienced so much suspense in a bike ride before. I swear this entire tale could have just been the main character chasing after a creature of the night on a bicycle and I would have loved it. There was a bit more to The Night Cyclist than that, though.
Everything about this story felt authentic - from the restaurant field (the main character is a chef) to what it must really feel like to be a cyclist.
The Night Cyclist weighs in at 32 pages. I would only recommend it to folks who love reading short stories, but I do without a doubt recommend it. I laid down my $.99 so I could read it on my Kindle, but you can read it for free on Tor's website here: https://www.tor.com/2016/09/21/the-night-cyclist/...more
I loved this. Starling House is my first Alix E. Harrow book. Her writing is so beautiful. I can't wait to read more from her.I loved this. Starling House is my first Alix E. Harrow book. Her writing is so beautiful. I can't wait to read more from her....more
I love horror novellas. They are such a great length.
Below was a quick, fun read. Addy is traveling alone at night on a mountain road when she meets aI love horror novellas. They are such a great length.
Below was a quick, fun read. Addy is traveling alone at night on a mountain road when she meets a stranger and decides against her better judgement to drive with him through the winter storm.
Below was such an unexpected read. It's part creature feature, part psychological thriller. There were a lot of twists and turns packed into this novella. I will say a lot goes unanswered in this one as well. The reader is meant to follow Addy's adventure and know what she knows which leaves a lot of questions so just enjoy the ride with this one and hope to make it off the mountain alive.
Yay! I'm so happy to have finally read City of Ghosts. I have so many Schwab books that I still haven't read including this trilogy. To be fair, I bouYay! I'm so happy to have finally read City of Ghosts. I have so many Schwab books that I still haven't read including this trilogy. To be fair, I bought the rest of the trilogy after my son loved this first book, but I have no good excuses for not having read them myself.
We had a bad storm here, and I needed a horror to lose myself in, and this book called out to me.
City of Bones is a middle grade horror novel, but it definitely has wide appeal. It has my favorite MG elements: ghosts and friendships.
Cassidy Blake has the ability to walk between worlds and see ghosts. There was a wonderful balance between the living and the dead. City of Ghosts is creepy but also an entertaining story and well crafted.
I'm absolutely adding City of Ghosts to my list of recommended middle grade horror books.
Source: personal purchase. This is a review of my reading experience....more
I bought What Moves the Dead because I wanted to read more of T. Kingfisher's work. I loved The Hollow Places, and I keep hearing such good things aboI bought What Moves the Dead because I wanted to read more of T. Kingfisher's work. I loved The Hollow Places, and I keep hearing such good things about everything she has written. Thankfully, What Moves the Dead was voted the September readalong selection by the Horror Spotlight discord group. it gave me the perfect excuse to pull it off the shelf and read it.
What Moves the Dead is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It had been a while since I first read The Fall of the House of Usher so I decided to read it again before reading What Moves the Dead. I'm so glad that I did! What Moves the Dead expanded on The Fall of the House of Usher in such a wonderful way. This was one of my favorite reading experiences of the year.
Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is very short and, in my opinion, not very memorable. But What Moves the Dead does an amazing job of keeping the tone of Edgar Allan Poe – the wonderfully creepy Gothic fungus covered tone – and expands it into a terrifying and memorable and even somehow lovable story.
I loved the characters and the writing and everything about What Moves the Dead.
T. Kingfisher does a really great job at creepy imagery in What Moves the Dead. There are several moments that are quite chilling, and I had so much fun with the suspense of it all. I think reading The Fall of the House of Usher as well really enhanced my experience with reading What Moves the Dead.
If you haven't read T. Kingfisher before, I highly recommend both The Hollow Places and What Moves the Dead. I would really love to read everything she has written. I think next up for me will be Nettle and Bone. That sounds like a perfect read for me.
Source: preordered purchase. This is a review of my reading experience.
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I bought What Moves the Dead because I wanted to read more of T. Kingfisher's work. I loved The Hollow Places, and I keep hearing such good things about everything she has written. Thankfully, What Moves the Dead was voted the September readalong selection by the Horror Spotlight discord group. it gave me the perfect excuse to pull it off the shelf and read it.
What Moves the Dead is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It had been a while since I first read The Fall of the House of Usher so I decided to read it again before reading What Moves the Dead. I'm so glad that I did! What Moves the Dead expanded on The Fall of the House of Usher in such a wonderful way. This was one of my favorite reading experiences of the year.
Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is very short and, in my opinion, not very memorable. But What Moves the Dead does an amazing job of keeping the tone of Edgar Allan Poe – the wonderfully creepy Gothic fungus covered tone – and expands it into a terrifying and memorable and even somehow lovable story.
I loved the characters and the writing and everything about What Moves the Dead.
T. Kingfisher does a really great job at creepy imagery in What Moves the Dead. There are several moments that are quite chilling, and I had so much fun with the suspense of it all. I think reading The Fall of the House of Usher as well really enhanced my experience with reading What Moves the Dead.
If you haven't read T. Kingfisher before, I highly recommend both The Hollow Places and What Moves the Dead. I would really love to read everything she has written. I think next up for me will be Nettle and Bone. That sounds like a perfect read for me.
Source: preordered purchase. This is a review of my reading experience....more
Wow - I have so many feelings about Chlorine! I will start with the most important since that's why we are all here - I loved this book.
Chlorine is a Wow - I have so many feelings about Chlorine! I will start with the most important since that's why we are all here - I loved this book.
Chlorine is a debut coming-of-age novel that follows Ren Yu - a swimmer who grew up loving tales of mermaids and the water. I could really relate to Ren and her obsession with being in the water. In fact, the synopsis for Chlorine sounded like a perfect read for me, and it was.
The comparison to Han Kang's The Vegetarian had me curious about what kind of horror I would find in Chlorine (In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale...). I find sometimes a book that is strange or unsettling gets labeled as horror because there's not really another marketing box to put it in. I wondered if this was the case with Chlorine and for the first 150+ pages I feared I was right. Chlorine is a wonderful work of literary fiction. The character building was incredible, and I was heavily invested in the story. I was side-eyeing the claims of "horror" in Chlorine until Jade Song spelled out for the reader exactly what horror was going to take place, and I absolutely could not look away.
So be warned. This book is wonderful. I loved it, and it will be one of my favorite books of the year, but the last 100 pages are disturbing. They're amazing, but they're disturbing. I had to put the book down, take some breaths, and pick it right back up again.
I loved these characters, and I miss these characters already. Chlorine is a really great coming-of-age story, and I highly recommend it if you can handle having horror in your literary fiction. I think I'm going to buy this one for my mom for Mother's Day, and you should treat yourself, too.
CW: racism, misogyny, self-harm, eating disorders, homophobia, depression, and sexual violence.
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