bookshelf of horrors
ms. rush truly outdid herself with this little number. i found myself more and more afraid of kent as the story progressed. the final few chapters created images in my head that had me holding on to my butt for dear life!!!
audiobook was british which was the first red flag and it was clearly just about grief like the combo was abysmal this is why i stick to splatterpunk
THIS WAS SO GOOD OMGGGG
the story follows margot, a young woman who inherits a wine business from her recently deceased parents and is forced to deal with generational trauma and centuries old curses
the story story doesnt actually begin until the third act- first two are more worldbuilding imo. was lowkey too overtly political. cosmic alien monster apocalypse pandemic octopus sex and gore.
also GREGORY????
interesting concept- unfortunately the prose was so flowery i had absolutely no clue what was happening at any given moment.
slow, not exciting, not for me. bleak for sure. im sure theres some deeper meaning to the book, but thats not really why i read. dunno.
finished reading this on international women’s day and i cannot think of a more painfully ironic read considering our main character diddly done gone to the end of the earth for a man that doesnt deserve it
this book was really just meh. maybe thats because of the translation but the story is about 12 kids and 3 adults who go on a school camping trip and everyone dies. the story follows the different characters as they navigate the woods an…
“his arms were cut off. his legs were cut off. his nose was cut off. his ears were cut off. his eyebrows were waxed”
but fr this was a pretty good book i enjoyed the journey it took me on even if its basically taken. i just wish it was …
2.5 ⭐️ rounded up
Felt kinda rushed compared to the first book but I was entertained for a few hours. I feel like the story could’ve just ended after the first book. You’re not really missing anything if you don’t read this book imo
Felt kinda rushed compared to the first book but I was entertained for a few hours. I feel like the story could’ve just ended after the first book. You’re not really missing anything if you don’t read this book imo
2 ⭐️ for the story telling but 5 ⭐️ for the GORE!!!
Let’s be honest, this story wasn’t intended to be “good”. It was intended to shock you with it’s putrid descriptions of carnage. This one had me permanently stank-faced in the last hal…
(3.5 ⭐️)
Where do I even begin with this one? Every bit of it felt illegal to read. There was no real plot and it was more of an account of how a 26 year old teacher groomed and maintained a VERY GRAPHIC sexual relationship with a 14 ye…
im at a loss for words. this is such a raw memoir. im glad jennette is able to find healing. <3
Can I give this more than 5 ⭐️???
(4.5 ⭐️) i love folklore horror and this was a really fun read! it was creepy and PASSES THE BECHDEL TEST!!! the characters were likeable as well- mouse was really relatable. bongo was my favorite
I was NOT prepared for the gore in this book, but I was warned. Incredible read that actually had me making faces and going “what the fuck????” multiple times. This is a solid, actually disturbing, horror novel. Definitely pick it up and…
Claustrophobic and amazingly detailed! I love Cutter’s use of simile an onomatopoeia! This book was definitely scary but didn’t make me afraid to use the bathroom- if that makes sense. The only reason I’m giving it 4/5 is because sometim…
snagged this thinking it would terrify me- i was wrong. very (understandably) 80’s horror and nothing truly scary happens until the last third of the book. king likes to ramble and make creepy comments about women, but in retrospect i do…
prose was meh but it was nonfiction so ill give it a pass. i think this was a decent feminist analysis on how we so readily accepted hormonal birth control and the price we paid
Girl this book wasn’t good. Respectfully. There were so many plot lines that were introduced but never fleshed out. Like the kids in the trees? The cave with the drawings? The drawings themselves- who made them? What happened to the neig…
people complaining about the “plot”(or lack thereof?) when its literally a novella detailing unimaginable horrors at the hands of a random pervert. its like… a memory. no start, no end, no Powers that Be. just living through something aw…
