Goodreads rating: 4.44 stars My rating: 4 stars Ken Kaneki is a normal, teenage student living in an alternate universe Japan where ghouls – flesh eating monsters – exist and there is an entire section of the police dedicated to keeping them in check. The ghouls are persecuted heavily because they eat humans (I don’t …
Goodreads rating: 4.65 stars My Rating: 5 stars If you’re interested in getting an inside look into Crimson Peak directed by Guillermo del Toro, this is the book for you. A wealth of information printed on heavyweight, glossy pages with beautiful stills, sketches, background information, and maps from behind the scenes of Crimson Peak. Ordinarily, …
Continue reading Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness by Mark Salisbury
Goodreads Rating: 3.92 stars My Rating: 4.5 stars Not all monsters are terrible and not all humans are good, but to Hazel and her brother Ben, the faeries living in the forest on the edge of Fairfold have always been mysterious and dangerous – somewhere in between good and bad. The seemingly harmless magic attracts …
Continue reading The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Goodreads rating: 4.31 stars --- My rating: 2 stars I tried, guys. I really, really wanted to like this series. Don’t hate me for quitting on it after book two. I might attempt to read book 3 at a later point in time. After learning that she and her sister were both adopted – and …
Rotten Tomatoes: 71% (3.5 stars) My Rating: 4.5 stars Goodreads Rating: 3.91 stars — My Rating: 4.5 stars “Beware of Crimson Peak.” Ominous, yes, but when you hear this from the horrifying ghost of your dead mother in the middle of the night as a child, this is infinitely more terrifying. For years, Edith hasn’t …
Goodreads Rating: 4.2 stars --- My Rating: 4.5 stars “The night is a strange time when you're alone in it, the rest of your world asleep.” When you purchase antique furniture, the last thing you’d expect is some kind of connection – a wormhole, so to speak – connecting the furniture to another time and …
Goodreads rating: --- My rating: 5 stars ***** Oh. My. Stars. I thought I couldn’t enjoy Harry Potter any more than I already did. I think you all probably know of the boy who lived, but for those of you that need a refresher: The boy who lived: something young Harry Potter didn’t even know he was. …
Goodreads Rating: 4.15 stars --- My Rating: 2.5 stars This wasn’t a bad read, but it was definitely nothing to write home about, unfortunately. I had such high hopes for this. Curse you, Goodreads, and your deceptively high ratings! While on a trip to Ireland studying abroad, MacKayla Lane’s sister is killed. The police seem to think …
Goodreads Rating: 3.88 stars --- My Rating: 4.5 stars Apparently no Oxford comma is necessary for this one. Despite the OCD perturbing title, this book is definitely staying on my shelves for a long time to come. After being the only survivor of a deadly car crash with her boyfriend and unborn baby, Wren retreats …
Goodreads Rating: 3.98 My Rating: 4.5 Wild west, feuding vampires, Scott Snyder, what more is there to say? Skinner Sweet is your ordinary Wild West criminal - that is, until he gets turned into a vampire. The first American vampire. The art is interesting and the style was fun and loose; it matched very well with …
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