Book Review: The DeVouring / Simon Holt

Happy December folks. Check out this totally different take on a holiday story - all centering around the Christmas Season.

You won't find visions sugar plums dancing in wee ones heads, but rather a nightmare dreamscape that features our most terrible imaginings.

If you like B- grade horror movies, this book will play that out in your head. This will keep your eyes moving across the page to see what unexpected horror comes next. 

 

Book Review: Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong

There are not many times that 2 students that don't even know each other recommend a book to me in a short period of time. This is such a title.

• Skye's mom no longer wakes her with silly songs - she is mentally ill and often doesn't get out of bed until noon.
• Skye starts the day with a granola bar and a juice.
• Skye's brother, Luka, leaves for school early with his friends, because "Something's up."
• Skye's best friend Jesse (more than best friends?) passes her a note with some GPS coordinates - a hint that he wants to meet up.
• Jesse asks her out ON A DATE. Life is good.
• And then - they  are asked to go to the office. There has been a school shooting, at the high school where their brothers attend. Skye's brother was involved in the shootings, Jesse's brother is dead.
• Forty-four hours later, Skye and her belongings are in the back of her grandmother's car as they move away.

The story continues three years later. Skye's parent's divorce and her grandmother's ill health has made it neccessary for her to move in with her aunt and suddently she is back in the community where the shootings occured. ~~~Imagine. ~~~~

In this book you will: walk in Skye's shoes, walk in Jesse's shoes, experience bullying, discover a mystery, and enjoy a love story. This is the story of the ripples that are generated by a single event that takes place during a very short period of time.

You can find Aftermath on the shelves of the Nashua South Library.

 

Book Review: Wilder Girls / Rory Power

Can you imagine living in quarantine? You can? LOL

Hetty, Reese and Byatt live at an all-girls boarding school on an island in Maine. Strange things have been happening to the crabs and the flowers near the school and then to the girls themselves. Many don't live and those that do have growths, bruises, hands that go silver, eyes that fuse shut, a second spine or heart. The island is placed under quarantine and the girls lives become sparse as there is not enough food or supplies to go around. And the girls keep becoming sicker.

If you like horror stories, this story might be the right book for you. It isn't so much BOO! scary but it does leave one's stomach churning as events roll along. There is a missing girls, and a race to find her. Good and evil - and who know what is what.

This is a Flume nominee for 2020/2021
 

Book Review: House of Salt and Sorrows / Erin A Craig

 

Are you looking for a very dark gothic novel? If so, you may have found your book. House of Salt and Sorrow offers everything a gothic novel needs - a little love, some mystery, and a whole lot of horror. 

Annaleigh is one of 12 sisters who are slowly dying off, by a series of unfortunate events? But are these deaths totally random or does an evil root tie them all together? This retelling of the Brother's Grimm tale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses will leave the reader guessing until the end.

Is soft cozy romance novels are your thing - turn the other way. This books is DARK.