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- Review of The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson
This whole thing is ticking a lot of the horror movie boxes. Murder at a sleepaway camp.
- Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
She had been so consumed by the Vigenère cipher that she—horrors—hadn’t been eating properly.
- Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
There are numerous (largely unpunished) horrors perpetuated in Betty. Abuse, rape, cycles of aggression and emotional coldness, misogyny--her childhood is an avalanche of horrors
- Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen
and adults; vulnerable people used as slaves for sex; brutal fighting to the death; and various other horrors I loved Aislynn's attempts to achieve upheaval in the wake of her life horrors, and her renewed, fierce But Beneath the Keep's events are almost universally bleak, with so much lost, so many horrors, so many
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories, betrayals, horrors
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Wilkerson is exceptional at laying out absurdities, horrors, disturbing historical events, shocking trends
- Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
Robin comes face to face with some of her most enduring past horrors, juggles her abandoned past and
- Review of Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
of tense undercurrents, a growing sense of being trapped in an impossible situation, heartbreaking horrors
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
is about refugees trying to evacuate west across Germany at the end of World War II to avoid Russian horrors
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories, betrayals, horrors
- Review of Going There by Katie Couric
of power and sexual abuse within some of Couric's professional environments, and she expresses her horror
- Review of The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah
the real magic seems to be the fact that they are impressively able to overcome the weighty lies and horrors
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Gregory doesn't force a redemption arc for the singleminded, relentless, ruthless Eleanor, yet after a horror
- Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
They spend their nights desperately avoiding the cruelties and horrors they might suffer at the hands
- Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies
The novel is about a family stretched to its limits in the face of the horrors of Nazi-occupied France
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
husband's title to secure invitations for her daughters (who are not, after all, shallow and greedy horrors
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
In How to Stop Time, Matt Haig explores the beauty and the horror of time as it spools on essentially
- Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
It's 1944, and Stalin's forces are rolling through the Ukraine, leaving destruction and horrors in their
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition
It's 1944, and Stalin's forces are rolling through the Ukraine, leaving destruction and horrors in their
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
situations are quite high, but the tone of Lost Lambs assures the reader that no untimely deaths or horrors
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- My Six Favorite Books of the Year So Far
husband's title to secure invitations for her daughters (who are not, after all, shallow and greedy horrors
- Review of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
hopelessness of slavery, the resigned existence of the imprisoned, masters' willful brutality--although the horrors
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads
tentatively begun, deep love story born in a British boarding school and blossoming amid the cruelties and horrors But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors.
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
This short memoir digs into the author’s repeated experience with North Korean horrors and despair—and
- Six of My Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads of the Year
The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
school experience, and, against all odds, building the somewhat-reasonable-feeling case for James's horror-turned-acceptance
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
grown woman with a full life, and she was not regularly reliving the crushing weight of it as a vivid horror
- Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
It's uncomfortable, disturbing, and infuriating to read historical fiction about the actual horrors that
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Horrors from her childhood are alluded to and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her
- Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
difficulties, focused on their duties at the expense of their romantic happiness, witnessed various horrors
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Erin Crosby Eckstine balances the horrors of living in an enslaved situation with the complex interpersonal
- Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The logistics of the vampire feeding and the feeding mechanism inspired open-mouthed horror as I was
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Palace felt somewhat like atmospheric meditations on place that were linked by various tragedies, horrors
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
They spend their nights desperately avoiding the cruelties and horrors they might suffer at the hands
- Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads
Catch and Kill does feel "cinematic," but the horrors at its heart have been verified.
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
difficulties, focused on their duties at the expense of their romantic happiness, witnessed various horrors
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Yet the true horrors of life as an enslaved Black person in the deep South at the time of Twain's novel
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories, betrayals, horrors
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war
- My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies
very popular book set during World War II about a family stretched to its limits in the face of the horrors
- Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
grown woman with a full life, and she was not regularly reliving the crushing weight of it as a vivid horror
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I've seen Lone Women listed as a horror book, and there are horrifying elements, but the novel is far
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
peers out the window to see him walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror
- Review of The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
The tragic destruction of her indigenous clan at the hands of the British mirrors the horrors enacted














































