Tag: book review

How to Support Authors (whether or not they’re published)

You want to support an author, you buy their book, right? Well, not always. A lot of the greatest authors of our time haven’t even been published yet. I have been invested in authors’ journeys sometimes years before their publication. And even if they have been published, there are a lot more ways to show […]

Review: Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio

This is my first read of the year, and the first of my Christmas haul. If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio was in my top three favorite books last year, so naturally I checked to see if she had written anything else. A book about five insomniacs meeting up in a graveyard instantly […]

Review: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” So this was one of the best books I’ve read this year. Probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. Though I’ve seen it on every dark academia book list this autumn, I can say with certainty that it is not just a seasonal […]

Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

My latest read was The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. There were references to it in The Library of Borrowed Hearts, and I already knew that I loved Shirley Jackson after reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle a few years ago. The Haunting of Hill House is defined as gothic psychological […]