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Something In The Walls

"I wonder how the grief can still twist inside you ... when you least expect it." Author: Daisy Pearce Mina is an inexperienced, newly graduated Child Psychologist with enough trauma to easily keep a team of psychologists both busy and irritated. So, of course, it’s time for her to get in way over her head and go to the creepy countryside and offer her services to a family with a possessed child. The rando who told her about the case will also come along for the ride, because REDEMPTION. Alice Walker is a young teen, supposedly possessed by a witch. She’s [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-06T08:56:42-07:00October 6th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, witch|

Thirteenth Child, The

“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.” Author: Erin A. Craig Hazel’s parents never wanted her. As a matter of fact, they gave her to The Dreaded End as an infant. Since then, they have none so patiently waited for this thirteenth child of theirs to be taken by the Dreaded End, her supposed godfather. But he never comes. And so Hazel waits for him, year after year, unwanted, unloved, un-celebrated. On her twelfth birthday, after watching her closest brother be given to the dissonant Fractured Ones, The Dreaded End finally comes for Hazel and whisks [...]

Frances Carden2025-09-22T11:22:22-07:00September 22nd, 2025|Tags: book review, botm, fantasy, read, reading|

Dream Hotel, The

“Under the right circumstances, anything can be made into something sinister.” Author: Laila Lalami Sara gets pulled away from her husband and twin infants at LAX, presumably for a routine risk assessment. She is exhausted, angry, irritated. She isn’t at her best. Bad goes to worse when the Risk Assessment Administration decides that her irascibility and their algorithm, which tracks everything from a person’s actions to the content of their dreams, denotes her as a safety risk. She’ll have to go to Madison, a women’s retention center, where she will be monitored for twenty-one days or until the algorithm determines that [...]

Frances Carden2025-09-08T18:37:34-07:00September 8th, 2025|Tags: book review, dream hotel, dystopian, read, reading|