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From Creepy Indoor Waterparks to Paranormal Activity-Plagued Cracker Barrels

Nightmare of A Trip by Maureen Kilmer

April 1, 2024 by Pooja 3 Comments

When the Somerset family heads out on a road trip from Wisconsin to Florida, mom Leigh expects plenty of bumps along the way – but even she doesn’t expect to be haunted by ghosts after a strange incident at an abandoned house. My family has always been big on road trips, and consequently I have spent days driving down endless roads in both the United States and India. You see plenty of road trips on television and in books, but rarely the family caravan type. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARC, family, horror, humor, Maureen Kilmer, NetGalley, paranormal

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARC, family, horror, humor, Maureen Kilmer, NetGalley, paranormal ·
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Title Says It All

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

October 26, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: Monster. One of the women in a group of suburban mom friends turns into a literal monster and it’s up to the other women to save her. For almost thirty years (maybe going on forty), the suburbs have been used as a setting to explore the murky themes beyond the American idyll of house/car/2.5 kids. From mystery to horror to…well whatever John Waters does, we’ve often seen the lily white burbs are not all they seem. The Tom Hanks-esque […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: ghosts, horror, Illinois, Maureen Kilmer, suburban Chicago, Suburban Hell, suburbs, zombies

Jake's CBR14 Review No:188 · Genres: Horror · Tags: ghosts, horror, Illinois, Maureen Kilmer, suburban Chicago, Suburban Hell, suburbs, zombies ·
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Suburban Hell

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

August 7, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this wasn’t that great unfortunately. I loved the cover. I loved the synopsis. But it took me several days to finish this one. It just moved so freaking slow. And I just didn’t care about any of the characters. I kept hoping that something would happen, but nothing really does except for a scene about some baby rabbits. I just thought the whole book dragged and was hoping […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Horror Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Maureen Kilmer

Classic's CBR14 Review No:166 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Horror · Tags: cbr14bingo, Maureen Kilmer ·
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