Book Reviews & Recommendations
Stephen King has always been the undisputed master of storytelling, but with You Like It Darker, he invites readers to explore a deeper, more intimate darkness. This 2024 collection of twelve short stories, which won the Goodreads Choice Award for Readers’ Favorite […]
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Stephen King has long treated the novella as his secret weapon, a length that lets him build tension, burrow into character, and still land a knockout ending. If It Bleeds collects four of those long stories, and together they […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Leigh Bardugo’s Hell Bent, the highly anticipated sequel to Ninth House, dives even deeper into the shadows of Yale’s secret societies, where wealth, power, and the occult collide. Winner of the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy, this dark […]
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Percival Everett’s The Trees is a blistering, darkly satirical, and hauntingly powerful novel that tackles one of America’s deepest and most enduring wounds: the legacy of lynching and racial violence. Set in the fictional town of Money, Mississippi the […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren enters the crowded field of true crime–inspired thrillers with a premise that promises chills and forensic authenticity. As the co-host of the popular Morbid podcast, Urquhart brings her real-life experience as an […]
Clémence Michallon’s The Quiet Tenant is a dark, unsettling debut that dares to crawl inside the mind of a serial killer and the women trapped in his orbit. This is not an easy read. It’s haunting, suffocating, and emotionally raw, yet profoundly […]
In Heather Gudenkauf’s The Overnight Guest, isolation becomes both a refuge and a nightmare. Set against the merciless backdrop of a deadly blizzard, this psychological thriller grips you from the first page and refuses to let go until the chilling final scene. […]
Liann Zhang’s debut novel Julie Chan Is Dead is a wickedly sharp and unhinged thriller that dives headfirst into the glittering, grotesque world of social media fame. Equal parts satire and psychological suspense, it’s a story about envy, deception, and the dangerous […]
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Few authors can blend psychological terror with razor-sharp plotting quite like A.R. Torre. In The Last Party, she delivers one of her most unsettling and brilliantly constructed thrillers to date a slow-burning psychological storm that explores the darkest corners […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Rektok Ross returns with a chilling gothic thriller that perfectly captures the eerie charm of New England and the razor-sharp edge of courtroom drama. Salem’s Fall is a darkly addictive mix of psychological suspense, legal intrigue, and forbidden romance […]