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“I suspect if I had owned a border collie, this story would have a very different ending, and I probably would not have been around to type it up. But I had Bongo, and he saved our lives because he is simple and made of nose.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

December 23, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Gotta write this review today because I’m about to start The Hollow Places, and I don’t want my brain to get to confused about it. This book was ooky spooky and I enjoyed it very much. The atmosphere was A+ for me, the MC alone in her evil grandmother’s hoarder house (the book is clear that her being a hoarder is in no way related to her being evil, but the doll room is def related) and a THING in the woods. The THING omg it […]

Filed Under: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones

narfna's CBR15 Review No:158 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cozy horror, folk horror, horror, narfna, speculative, t kingfisher, the twisted ones ·
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“Home is a choice and sometimes a hard one. What you choose to accept. What you embrace.”

Lute by Jennifer Marie Thorne

December 17, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Nina Treadway is the lady of Lute, but she’s only lived there for seven years, since she got married to Hugh. As a foreigner, she doesn’t believe in the island’s day of the tithe, but as things start going wrong all around her, she wonders if it might be more than a superstition. Folk horror! A mysterious day of human sacrifice as an island extracts the price of its bounty from its residents! An American abroad! And that cover is so very beautiful, and so […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, ARC, folk horror, horror, island, Jennifer Marie Thorne, NetGalley, scotland

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:96 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, ARC, folk horror, horror, island, Jennifer Marie Thorne, NetGalley, scotland ·
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“I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the dead ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the twisted ones.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

November 9, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I gave T. Kingfisher’s horror oeuvre another shot and I’ve come to the conclusion that I like her romance/fantasy writing more, so I’ll give another one of those a try if I want to read anything else by her. This one follows Melissa, who goes by Mouse, as she heads down to North Carolina to clean out her grandmother’s house. She’s just had a bad breakup and needs to get out of Pittsburgh for a while, so when her dad asks her to take on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, folk horror, folk magic, horror, t kingfisher

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:127 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, folk horror, folk magic, horror, t kingfisher ·
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