Book Reviews & Recommendations
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 […]
Few writers can blend the ordinary and the supernatural quite like Stephen King. Later reminds us why he’s still the undisputed master of modern horror. At once a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story, and a meditation on innocence lost, this slim but […]
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 […]
S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood is an intimate and lyrical retelling of Dracula’s story through the eyes of his first bride, Constanta. Written as a confessional letter to her immortal husband, this novel reimagines the classic vampire myth not through fangs […]
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 […]