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Review: The Beast You Let In by Dana Mele

Apr 8, 2026 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Hazel is nothing like her twin. Beth is popular, outgoing, and has friends, while Hazel is introverted, quiet, and keeps to herself. When they were children, the pair were close, but now …...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews, Young Adult
TAGGED: Dana Mele, horror, mystery, Sourcebooks Fire

Review: Wretch by Eric LaRocca

Mar 24, 2026 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Grief is no easy business, but a very select few sometimes get help in coping with their overwhelming feelings. For Simeon Link, losing his husband, Jonathan, to cancer was a consuming kind of...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Paranormal
TAGGED: betrayal, Eric LaRocca, grief/loss, horror, Saga Press, suicide ideation, widow/widower

Review: On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield

Feb 27, 2026 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel “Violence was her birthright, anger her first gift.” While the outside world is wrapped in the change of the Civil Rights Movement, 41-year-old Judith Rice is trapped in a house entrenched in...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Historical, Jovan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: abuse, animal death, BIPOC, body horror, child abuse, death, gore, horror, incest, lesbophobia, mental health, murder, psychological abuse, racism, rape, Saga Press, self harm, suicide ideation, Yah Yah Scholfield

Review: Such a Feral Little Lamb by Alexandra Keillor

Nov 20, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Over twenty years ago, humanity was devastated by a mysterious outbreak that turned healthy people into mindless zombies. Society reorganized itself into strictly segregated classes in a walled...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Alternate World, Camille's Reviews, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Paranormal
TAGGED: Alexandra Keillor, dystopian, gore, horror, mystery, self published, thriller, zombie

Review: The Resurrectionist by Kathleen S. Allen

Oct 30, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In 1880s London, at her father’s funeral, Dilly meets the man who will change her life: Benjamin Sinclair. At first, Dilly isn’t happy with the gravedigger insinuating himself into her life,...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Historical
TAGGED: character death, horror, Kathleen S. Allen, Roaring Brook Press

Review: An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin

Oct 29, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Mateo Borrero doesn’t expect much from life except bad luck. How could he when his powerful blood bruja mother, Ignacia, trapped a demon inside him, forbade him from using magic, and filled...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews, Urban Fantasy
TAGGED: Alcove Press, BIPOC, brujo, curse, demon, gore, horror, K. Valentin, magic, murder, mystery, new adult, no hea, torture, violence, witch

Review: Veal by Mackenzie Nolan

Oct 29, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Lawrence is running away from home. Leaving behind a corporate job that gave her no joy and no satisfaction — other than it pleasing her mother — Lawrence has decided to go back to school at...

FILED UNDER: 3.25 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews
TAGGED: ECW Press, horror, Mackenzie Nolan, slow burn, small town

Review: Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews

Oct 28, 2025 | 1 comment

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Evander has lived a quiet life. He has his room with his books, the window seat overlooking the garden, and the door that keeps the rest of the world out of his room. The butler brings Evander...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews, Paranormal, Young Adult
TAGGED: C.G. Drews, horror, Macmillan Children’s, mystery, thriller

Review: The Beast You Let In by Dana Mele

Review: Wretch by Eric LaRocca

Review: On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield

Review: Such a Feral Little Lamb by Alexandra Keillor

Review: The Resurrectionist by Kathleen S. Allen

Review: An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin

Review: Veal by Mackenzie Nolan

Review: Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews

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