When Cora and her little sister Mimi are sent to visit their Aunt Ida in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, their welcome is less than enthusiastic. Their aunt tells them not to get comfortable, that she’s writing to their father to come pick them up, that “they can’t stay here, they mustn’t stay here.”…
Tag: paranormal/supernatural
Review: Saranormal: Ghost Town
Sara Collins is not happy. Her father has unexpectedly rooted her from her sunny California home and moved across country to an old shore town in New Jersey. Sharing a dilapidated house with a psychic who may or may not be a fraud is bad enough, but Sara’s main concern is the other occupants: the…
Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Grad student Connie Goodwin should be spending the summer working on her dissertation; instead she’s spending it near Salem digging through her deceased grandmother’s moldering home that her mother has suddenly decided is important to sell. The home has been unoccupied for 20 years, and is full of books and bottles with handwritten labels, rotting…
Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Nothing about Karou is normal — from the top of her blue-haired head to her tattoos and fantastic sketches of monsters that may or may not be real. Her friends wonder at her imagination, but the truth is it’s all truth. Issa and Brimstone, baby teeth and wishes and locked doors. A child raised by…
Review: Chime
Briony knows the way the story should go: a handsome stranger arrives to save the beautiful woman, and they live happily ever after. “But this isn’t a proper story,” she says, “and I’m telling you, I ought to be hanged.” Only a witch can see the Old Ones, and doesn’t need a Bible Ball in…