Kill Creek – Scott Thomas || Horror Book REVIEW

If you’re a horror fan, you’ve probably been seeing this book EVERYWHERE! Scott Thomas was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Debut Authors so everyone has their eye on this guy!

So obviously, I couldn’t ignore the hype and had to check it out.

Did this book live up to the hype? Let’s find out!

GOODREADS    AMAZON

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, lies the Finch House. For years it has perched empty, abandoned, and overgrown–but soon the door will be opened for the first time in many decades. But something waits, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests.
When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won’t be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt soon becomes a fight for survival–the entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.

GENRE – Horror

RATING – R ( gore, violence, language, sexual activity, intense imagery, TRIGGER WARNING – suicide, self-harm, domestic violence, alcoholism, the death of a family member )

LENGTH – 416 pages

PUBLISHER – Inkshares

PUBLICATION DATE – 10 / 31 / 17

SPOOK FACTOR – 4 / 5 SPOOKS

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Unbury Carol – Josh Malerman || RANT REVIEW

So I’m a huge fan of Josh Malerman. I loved Bird Box! It was one of the most innovative and refreshing horror/suspense novels I had read in a long time. Then I read The House at the Bottom of the Lake. I rated it low, but I think the suspense in the book was top notch.

Then I came to Unbury Carol. I was SO excited to read Unbury Carol and had actually received an e-arc for the book but was unable to read it because it expired before I got to it.

So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that my library got a copy of Unbury Carol. I picked it up immediately and my friend Regina @ Bookish in Bed was excited too so we buddy read it. And….well….let’s talk about how I felt….

GOODREADS      AMAZON

Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.

Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and—when she lapses into another coma—plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.

And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her—summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself

GENRE – Horror (?), Western

RATING – PG-13 (Intense scenes)

LENGTH – 367 pages

PUBLISHER – Del Rey

PUBLICATION DATE – 4 / 10 / 18

SPOOK FACTOR – 0 / 5 SPOOKS

The First Purge || Horror Movie REVIEW

I’ll preface this review by saying I actually haven’t seen any of the other Purge movies. I thought, if there was any time for me to jump into the franchise, it would be at the prequel (other than the first one obviously).

Basically, I wanted to review this movie based off if it’s a “good prequel” based on the fact that I wouldn’t know any callbacks to the other movies.

So let’s just get into my thoughts on this movie.

IMDb            ROTTON TOMATOES

After the rise of a third political party, the New Founding Fathers of America, an experiment is conducted, no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one must stay during the experiment yet there is $5,000 for anyone who does.

GENRE – Action / Horror

RATING – R

RUNTIME – 1 H 38 MIN

DIRECTOR – Gerard McMurray

STARRING –  Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade

SPOOK FACTOR – 1 / 5 SPOOKS

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The Stand – Stephen King || Book REVIEW (Stephen King read-through #5)

Man, this book was a freaking behemoth! I took me FOREVER to get through this one. Does that mean I didn’t like it? Not necessarily. With that being said, let’s jump into it!

Disclaimer – In my read through, I skipped the abridged version of The Stand. I had no interest in reading it, so I just went] to the Uncut version.

GOODREADS           AMAZON

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen.

GENRE – Horror

RATING – R (intense scenes, gore, sex, language, violence, drug and alcohol use)

LENGTH – 1153 pages

PUBLISHER – Doubleday

PUBLICATION DATE – 5 / 1 / 1990

SCARE FACTOR – 2 / 5

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Night Shift – Stephen King || Book REVIEW {REPOST} (Stephen King read-through #4)

This was originally posted 1 / 28 / 18! I am reposting all my original read-through reviews for continuity sake.

This is the first SK short story collection I’ve ever read and one of the only short story collections I’ve read. I was nervous because I didn’t really know what to expect. Did I enjoy it? Let’s find out!

AMAZON   GOODREADS

Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories “Children of the Corn,” “The Lawnmower Man,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” and “Sometimes They Come Back”-which were all made into hit horror films.

“Unbearable suspense.” (Dallas Morning News)

From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.

GENRE – Horror

RATING – R (intense scenes, sex, gore, language)

LENGTH – 326 pages

PUBLISHED – 2 / 1978 by Doubleday

The Shining – Stephen King || Book REVIEW {REPOST} (Stephen King read-through #3)

This was originally posted 1 / 21 / 18! I am reposting all my original read-through reviews for continuity sake.

The Shining was one of the first SK books I ever read! In fact, I was probably too young to read this book because I remembering it going right over my head. So when I revisited it, it was basically like a new experience. Did I understand it more this time? Let’s find out!

 AMAZON    GOODREADS

Danny is only five years old, but he is a ‘shiner’, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?

GENRE – Horror

RATING – R (gore, alcoholism, violence, language, sex, intense imagery)

LENGTH – 447 pages

PUBLISHED – 1 / 28 / 1977 by Doubleday

‘Salem’s Lot – Stephen King|| Book REVIEW {REPOST} (Stephen King read-through #2)

This was originally posted on 1 / 13 / 18! I am reposting all my original read-through reviews for continuity sake.

AMAZON   GOODREADS

Thousands of miles away from the small township of ‘Salem’s Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to ‘Salem’s Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.

GENRE – Horror

RATING – R ( sex, alcohol, language, gore, some intense scenes)

LENGTH – 439 pages

PUBLISHED – 10 / 17 / 1975 by Doubleday

NEW REVIEW POLICY // BOOKS, MOVIES, AND GAMES

So since I’m revamping my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to tweak my review policy as well.

Not only did I think my original review policy was flawed, but I really never made a reviewing policy for TV shows, movies, or games. So here I’ll share my updated/new review policies!

February 2018 WRAP UP!

So this month wasn’t nearly as good as the last, but I was in school the entire time, so I didn’t have nearly as much time. Regardless, I still did really well considering my time constraints.

During the month I read 7 books! Out of those there were –

0 –  ⭐

1 –  ⭐ ⭐

2 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

4 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

0 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

 

• Average Rating : 3.43  ⭐
• Total Page Count  – 2,376 pages
• 2 (and 1/2) books were read during the Thrillerathon Readathon.
• 1 physical book / 4 e-books / 2 audiobooks
• 5 review copies
• 8 female authors 

GENRE BREAKDOWN –

• 4 Thrillers
• 2 Cozy Mysteries
• 1 Horror

Thrillerathon Readathon WRAP UP!

So for my February readathon, I found the perfect one for me! A thriller readathon!

This was a week-long readathon that took place from 2 / 17 to 2 / 24 and it was created by Harriet Rose.

• Read a thriller you’re most anticipating.
• Read a thriller that’s been on your TBR the longest.
• Read a thriller you’ve most recently added to your TBR.
• Read a thriller with the best cover.
• Revisit a thriller book or author.

 

I read 3 (really 2.5) books during the readathon. Out of those, there were :

0 –  ⭐

0 –  ⭐ ⭐

1 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

2 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

0 –  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

• In total, I read 1,106 pages!