Ghost

I can see why people liked this one but it wasn't really for me. It was generally just an okay read for me but I'm not much for cozy vibes when it comes to books (very much into cozy vibes when it comes to the way I live though).

No rating, I wasn't the right audience.

This one was an exercise in thinking about a story from multiple point of views where a lot of the characters fail to act on their gained insight. That made a lot of the characters somewhat frustrating but the style was generally pleasant so it wasn't too hard to stick with.

3.5 rounded up.

This one surprised me, I wasn't sure if I really liked it until the last 30% and yet here I am ready to recommend it for fans of bleak supernatural horror.

I'm very partial to Dalrymple's style so of course I really, really liked this one. It was just the right blend of weird and raw for me.

Way too long for the story it had to tell.

It was a really cute story with super endearing characters.

I think this is where I stop with this series. I was so hopeful when I saw that we were getting back to Sam's POV but she seemed to have undergone a personality change which I didn't care for. The characters kept rushing into things that made no sense and making rookie mistakes, it was hard to believe these were the same fairly smart survivors from book 1.

Also, the doctor character's arc was really nonsensical and annoying. The end was so farfetched it was just laughable (spoiler ahead: the cure will literally bring a long dead and decomposing zombie to life but muscles damage will not heal? The idea could have worked if the zombies hadn't been actually dead with no pulse but as it was...)

This one wasn't necessarily super original but it was a pretty quick and enjoyable read. There where a few moments where I was at the proverbial edge of my seat so it did work in that sense too.

It was kinda cute and kinda silly, what else can you hope to get from that type of story?

The prose was really lovely. The story wasn't super intense or anything but it was really nicely told.

If I'm entirely honest, I picked up this book because the cover was beautiful and I went in completely blind which might be why it took me a while to really get into the proverbial swing of things with this one. That being said, once it really got going I could not put it down and at the end I wanted more.

The characters were interesting as was the imagery. There's an underlying sense of tension and anxiety that doesn't let up until the very end which made for a tense and surprisingly quick reading experience.

I would have probably liked this one a lot more without the 2 characters living with their heavily diseased wieners which pushed a few scenes in goofy territory that didn't fit the general tone of the book.

The idea was great and it made it all the more frustrating that the execution was really lackluster. It felt like I was reading a really fleshed out outline instead of a finished story

While the story was quite poignant it felt a little unfinished.
The version I read included a bonus story which was also in the Manxiety collection, I think the pairing made it even more powerful so points for that.

This one read a lot like a teenage self-insert fanfic (not saying it was one I'm saying it read like one), in other words it tended to be self-indulgent and cringy. Some of the humor was fun but it was way too long for the story it had to tell.

Real talk, I picked up this book because every time I saw it on my Kindle's recommended for you tab I went “ah yes what the children yearn for, THE MINE” and it was becoming something of a problem.

The story is pretty simple and there isn't much “fluff”, fillers; we don't know em. The characters aren't super developed but I thought there was enough about them considering the format. The settings were nicely utilized. All things considered, it was a pretty solid quick read.

I have to admit that I probably laughed way too much while reading this book because tap tap tap tap is what we respond to our cat who has the habit of tapping us quickly to get our attention (for those who know me I'm talking about Goobz) and she wants A LOT of attention so yeah we say that a lot and of course in my head it sounded that ridiculous too.

The killer clown was great, I really liked Jones' spin on the idea. The main character was pretty engaging and the pacing was really good.

Pretty good little collection of very short stories. I only wish some of them had been a little longer.

I loved this book so much that immediately upon finishing it I went and bought the sequels. I didn't expect to love it so much because most of it is from the perspective of a child, a neglected and abused child , and I hate children POVs in horror 95% of the time, but here I thought it was very well done. The children's affects aren't over dramatized and they behave like actual children and it's heartbreaking in all the “right” places.

It's not super heavy on the zombie action but what's there is fantastic and the prose in descriptions was most excellent.

This book came up in my recommendations because of When Graveyards Yawn so based on that and the cover I went in blind expecting a post-apocalyptic novel with zombie dinosaurs... It's actually a fantasy. Now, fantasy hasn't been my jam in a while but I decided to stick with it anyways.

We have our usual chosen teenage girl on a mission, political intrigues (nothing super complicated) and a side of teenage romance, you know how these YA fantasy books go. The main character in this one is really the universe. Was it a little predictable? Yes. Was it still an enjoyable read? Also, yes.

I feel like I've read this one before but it's just part of certain brand of queer fiction that I maybe don't really vibe with all that much. There are some interesting topics and some cool ideas but I never manage to fully get into it because nothing ever seems to get quite there if that makes any sense?

That was such a fun format but while reading it I found myself wanting to :dustystick: react while I don't even use Slack.

I liked the idea and the mechanics of the Foamers were quite cool but the jumps between characters made the story feel a little too padded for me.

I've read a lot of the recent spate of nonfiction about asexuality and this is the one of the best one (best one I've read so far for an adult audience for sure). It covers A LOT in very few pages, so it doesn't tiptoe around stuff, it goes straight to the meat of the subject. The language is accessible and free of excessive jargon.

The idea behind this one is pretty solid and the main character was pretty good but there were too many things about the story that came across as contrived and overly plot convenient for me.