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Where He Can’t Find You

“Sometimes the worst things that happen to you come from the smallest decisions.” Author: Darcy Coates Think your hometown is going nowhere real fast? Well . . . you’re still probably better off than Doubtful, which has a bit more of a problem than just being backwaters and old-fashioned. You see, Doubtful has a generational serial killer. A man (or is it?) who kidnaps the unwary and returns them in pieces, reimagined as it were, sewn together with other victims, bisected by bright red threads, organic monstrosities that no longer resemble the humans from whom they were crafted. This then is [...]

Frances Carden2026-10-09T20:21:27-07:00October 9th, 2026|Tags: book review, Darcy Coates, horror, read, reading, The Stitcher, Where He Can’t Find You|

Hazelthorn

“Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream." Author: CG Drews Evander’s past sticks in him like broken shards: half formed and half seen memories of unthinkable violence. A young blond boy, a playmate, a shovel, so much blood and viscera spilling out. And now, forever an invalid, Evander is nearly grown, secreted away in his room turned prison in the Hazelthorn estate, hidden by his billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall. He is also hidden from Hall’s beautiful, deadly grandson – Laurie – the playmate who took adventure and transformed it into attempted murder. Laurie, [...]

Frances Carden2026-10-05T19:35:25-07:00October 5th, 2026|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, CG Drews, fantasy, Hazelthorn, horror, read, reading, ya|

Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was a God

"In the end, you will help yourself. You will not find, you will be found, for that is the way it has always been." Author: Paul Gallico Mary Ruadh has been touched by tragedy, but she was far too young to remember her mother’s death or understand that it caused her father’s almost cloying devotion. She’s seven, and she is happy. She is followed by her ginger cat, the adoring and adored Thomasina, and all is right in this little Scottish town. But then, Thomasina gets sick, and Mary’s father, Andrew MacDhui, the local veterinarian, puts her beloved pet down without [...]

Frances Carden2026-10-04T18:27:19-07:00October 4th, 2026|Tags: book review, cat, fiction, Paul Gallico, read, reading, Thomasina|