Category: Dark Contemporary
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Review: Fade Into You by Amber Smith and Sam Gellar (Release 11/04/2025)
This book was super sweet, and I really enjoyed seeing Jessa and Bird blossom as they got to know each other better. They became each other’s safe harbor in lives that looked very different but carried similar levels of heaviness.
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Review: Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington (Release 11/04/2025)
There was a really interesting story here. Nasim and Mikky were cute, but so much of their relationship was spent having the same argument. Kayla seemed to be the only one who cared about Erin for Erin.
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Review: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson (Release: 09/09/2025)
This book thrives in the shades of grey within the world and all of us.
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Review: Smile For the Cameras by Miranda Smith (Release 06/24/2025)
This book was so much fun. I flew through this book, and I think it makes for a great fun summer scare, or an awesome book to read to kick off spooky season this fall.
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Review: The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum (Release 04/22/2025)
This book is full of such tenderness and I’m so glad that teens will have it. This is a story about community, and how survival depends on having a community around you.
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Review: Boys With Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell (Release 04/08/2025)
I wish I had gone in blind on anything beyond the title with this one. This group of friends are obsessive and twisted, even before adding the paranormal elements towards the end.
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Review: The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson (Release 10/03/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love it when at the core of a horror story there is love, and this book absolutely delivered that. The Forest Demands Its Due is a story at its core about love and hate and the…
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Review: Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass (Release 09/12/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Both of the Adam Sass books I’ve read have managed to find me exactly when I needed them. I loved this book that is aptly described as Scream meets Clueless. While it mainly remains a slasher novel…
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Review: Cuckoos Three by Cassandra Jean and Mosskat (Release 08/22/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this graphic novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. As someone who has followed Cassandra Jean’s career for a long time now, I was so excited to finally get to see the end product of this collaboration. Murry and Jacob’s story grabbed me from the…
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Review: Darkhearts by James L. Sutter (Release 06/06/2023)
I received an eARC of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Based on the synopsis, I’d expected Darkhearts to be a much heavier and more serious book than it was, but I was surprised to find that it was a far lighter and funnier book in reality. I really enjoyed…