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Burning Girls, The

Irrational, Irreligious, and Irritating Author: C.J. Tudor Reverand Jack Brooks and her fourteen-year-old daughter have been sent to the disheveled, gothic village of Chapel Croft after the previous vicar’s gruesome in-church suicide. Neither woman wants to be part of this new place, but Reverand Jack is on shaky ground, and she can’t say no. When she gets to the village, fearful of the man who murdered her husband and is now out of jail, tracking her, she is welcomed by a dark history and an exorcism kit complete with an ominous verse: “But there is nothing covered up that will not [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T22:51:08-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

All the Dangerous Things

We've Seen It All Before Author: Stacy Willingham Isabelle Drake hasn’t slept in a year. Not since the day her infant son, Mason, was stolen out of his crib. How could she not have heard? Not have checked earlier? Not have known? And what about all those nights she hated motherhood, the stress, the strain, the demand? Is the absence somehow her fault? The police have no leads. Her husband has now moved on to a new relationship; it’s been a year. He wants to move on with his life. Everyone has accepted that Mason is gone. Probably dead. Certainly, never [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T14:13:05-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: book review, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

House in the Cerulean Sea, The

Bad Morals, Charming Storytelling Author: TJ Klune Linus Baker is the type of unassuming person who always colors within the lines. He does what he is told with precision, sheaves of paper, and a pedantic directness that has finally gotten him noticed. And that’s probably not a good thing. Linus is a Case Worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s the bureaucrat sent to government-sanctioned orphanages to make sure that magical children are safe from one another and that society is shielded from them. That’s not to say that Linus doesn’t have a conscience. He does. But [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-13T21:05:17-07:00September 13th, 2024|Tags: book review, fantasy, read, reading, sci-fi, science fiction|