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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

Classic's Reviews:

Scared Sexy Short Stories

Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood

Falling by Christina Lauren

Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger

Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert

All My Boyfriends are Monsters by Kimberly Lemming

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I’ve been dealing with a bad mood and migraine for about 24 hours so I just decided to read these short stories before getting back into anything longer. All in all, just a 3 for the entire anthology. This anthology is dark Halloween romance. I stupidly assumed dark romance means stories similar to A Court of Thorn and Roses, but this just seems more like, these all take place on Halloween (well I think most of them do except for that space one) and there’s […]

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

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Wow. I thought this was head and shoulders above the last book in the series. I love the character of Easton, and hearing about Gallacia. The last book, What Feasts at Night just went on and on with not enough explanation for me. I also didn’t really love the ending. What Stalks the Deep though gives us even more development of Easton, we get to follow up with Dr. Denton and the adventure now moves to America, specifically an old mine in West Virginia. I found the overall plot […]

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

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I never knew that Jack London wrote something called The Scarlet Plague and it was futuristic fiction. He wrote this in 1912 and at times during the story I thought about what happened with COVID-19 and what could have happened if we at that time didn’t come together and actually do what we could to contain it. I think that parts of the book though were just confusing at times (random wording occurring). I got the free version of this story so I am sure that was […]

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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I swear, this is why I can’t read classics, most of them I read, I don’t like or am completely confused about. I only read this for a Bingo square and my other choice has a 10 week hold on it and I didn’t want to spend the money on a book that I may not like. Anyway, here’s my review of Metamorphosis or what I like to call, that dude really turns into a bug and it’s just pages of this? Metamorphosis follows a salesman named Gregor […]

Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore

Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore

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I have to say that this was surprisingly good and funny. I won’t lie though, hearing about a zombie eating brains and killing people after a while did start to make me feel a bit squeamish, but I thought Kenemore did a great job with showing a world that has to deal with a sudden zombie outbreak and how terrible the humans and government were in the aftermath. The ending though gives you a clue about what happens next. The only reason why I did […]

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

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Trigger warning: Animal death.  So this was a weird one. I read elsewhere this book describes the “Big Bang Theory” better than any other supernatural/horror novel and I have to say I agree. It also is very easy with the description of mountains, chasms, and strange beings, to see how this aspired some horror authors such as Lovecraft (still racist). I think though that I would have loved it more if we had any dialogue outside of the two friends, “reading” the mysterious journal written […]



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