Full transparency, I almost DNF-ed Two Twisted Crowns. Despite immediately picking up the book after finishing its predecessor in the duology, One Dark Window, I just couldn’t seem to get invested. The entire opening features main character Elspeth trapped inside of her own body in a dark pool of her own consciousness. Her consciousness is also home to The Nightmare, but he now has complete control over her body after […]
The Black Hunger sounded like the perfect historical horror novel just in time for the spooky season. I was expecting a read similar to The Historian, but with more elements of horror. Unfortunately, though the premise of the novel is incredibly fascinating, the execution of it just didn’t work for me. The Black Hunger is plagued with pacing issues and doesn’t get into the horror elements until well into the book. […]
I snapped up Mexican Gothic for my Kindle during a sale and boy, am I glad I did. Mexican Gothic was the perfect, haunting read for right before Halloween. Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia creates the perfect eerie tale, with lush description, a strong heroine, and careful, but thrilling pacing. “There’re heavy places. Places where the air itself is heavy because an evil weighs it down. Sometimes it’s a death, could be […]
The Inheritor is one of those books that is so bad, it’s good. This was not my first Marion Zimmer Bradley book, but if it had, it probably would have been my last. Unlike Mists of Avalon, Bradley’s King Arthur epic, The Inheritor is full of extremely flat characters that lack understandable motivations and any sense. If Bradley intended to create characters straight out of soap opera, then she definitely […]