Genre: Fiction / Horror

The Dunnie by Keith Thomas

Posted 05/21/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Ok, so when I go into reading an “indie” horror novel, I usually go in expecting to intensely dislike it because, honestly, that’s usually how it goes for me. I end up hating it because it’s either horribly written, makes no sense, or is just not fear-inducing whatsoever. I was pleasantly surprised by The Dunnie. Now, I’m not going to pretend that this book was super fear-inducing, because for me it wasn’t. But I’ll be honest, I don’t scare easily when it comes to horror novels or movies. But this book was very creepy. It took me a bit to get into it, but once I got going, I flew through the book. Granted, it’s only about 150 pages long… but still. Once I got into it, I just didn’t want to put it down. In fact, I don’t think I did except for when I absolutely had to (aka, […]

The Book of Demons by Kevin Mo..

Posted 05/19/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

I’m going to admit, The Book of Demons isn’t a great book but isn’t a terrible book either. It starts out with a description of how the villain of the story came by his powers and then moved into the story proper. I found the story boring at times and exciting at others. To be honest, I was hoping for a much bigger ending than what happened. I actually called the ending in my head as soon as the actual ending started. To be honest, the book isn’t scary or even unsettling, it’s just… there. I gave the book 3.5 stars because as I said, it’s not great but it’s not terrible either. This one would be good for those who aren’t regular horror readers but who want to try their hand at reading horror without the full-on terrifying aspect you might find from Dean Koontz, Stephen King, or John […]

Suburban Monsters by Christoph..

Posted 03/05/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Ok, so we know I love horror. I’ve said it a million times. So when I saw Suburban Monsters, a horror short story collection by Christopher Hawkins on NetGalley, I had to give it a try. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as thrilled with the collection as I’d hoped. Read on to see my thoughts on the various stories. Suburban Monsters – The Stories Green Eyes This story isn’t too terribly scary or creepy. It’s more sad than anything, with just a touch of horror at the very end of the story. It only takes a few minutes to read (less than 30) and it’s a nice story to start Suburban Monsters off. I rather liked it. Moonrise Over Water With Sargassum, 2022. Oil on Canvas Again, this story in Suburban Monsters isn’t terribly scary or creepy. It’s more sad and perhaps a cautionary tale of what can happen when a husband […]

Zoomers vs Boomers by Sawyer B..

Posted 02/19/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Today’s book review is for Zoomers vs Boomers by Sawyer Black. Read on to find out what I had to say about this very interesting horror novel. CW: murder, blood, gore, mentions of racism, bullying, homophobia We all know I love a good horror novel – but when you pit Gen Z against the “Boomers”, I have to stop and take notice. I’m going to do the usual CAWPILE but I’m not going to detail specific characters because there’s just too many. Zoomers vs Boomers – Characters Our characters in Zoomers vs Boomers range from “we are rooting for this guy” to the “please just kill this dude already, seriously, before I jump in and do it for you”. For me, this was not an exaggeration. There were people – on the bad guys’ side – that I was wishing someone would hurry up and just off them so I […]

The Deep by Nick Cutter

Posted 06/27/2022 by Charli in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

When Brandon did one of his “here are some disturbing/creepy/horror books I read recently” videos and described The Deep, I knew I had to check it out. Before I get into the actual review a couple of trigger warnings that I found – descriptions of gore, childhood trauma, child abuse, animal abuse, animal death, child disappearance, parental murder. I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones I found. What would you do if the government called you and told you that your brother, who you haven’t spoken to in eight years and is doing some sort of scientific research eight miles underneath the Pacific Ocean, has asked for you and you need to go down there to find out what’s going on? Would you go? Because that’s what Luke Nelson did when he got the call that he needed to go eight miles below the Pacific Ocean to […]