The Blist

After finishing this one, I thought, "well that was a sweet little horror novel." I'm not sure I can verbalize why sweet is th...

This is a part of my quest to read those books I feel like everyone had to read in high school, but somehow I didn't. My goal? To know w...

If you liked Andy Weir's first novel, The Martian, then Project Hail Mary won't disappoint as another witty, funny, creative sci-fi ...

I was going to say this was a first for me in terms of genre: space horror. But now that I think about it, I was introduced to space horror ...

Grady Hendrix and I have an on-again off-again relationship. I didn't like Horrorstor , but I appreciated the premise and the book itsel...

  If you strand a bunch of (mostly) 20 something year old adults who work in a theme park for 35 days during a natural disaster, what do you...

Sarai Johnson teaches writing and literature courses at Howard and American Universities in the DC Area, and apparently wrote Grown Women, h...

This is a story that Alderman describes as feminist science fiction - a type of speculative fiction that I like to call a "what-if...

Moreno Garcia does an amazing job setting the right mood in this newer gothic tale. Set in Mexico in  the 1950's, you forget that the wo...

I love "what if" books, where you have a premise that the author just goes with, no matter how out there it is. And the question o...

I read this book to get my brother to stop talking about alien *insert creepy animal here (I don't want to spoil it)*. Every time I'...

  This is an unusual take of the slasher genre that I found refreshing. Is that an appropriate word to use when talking about slashers? Prob...

This book follows what I find to be a common formula: an (arguably) unreliable narrator, and two different timelines: one in the 50s and the...

This is book nine in the Wayward Children Series, a series of books about children who have found portals into alternate worlds that can be ...

I'm a little embarrased to admit that I'd never read a Judy Blume book. I know Superfudge and Are You There God? It's Me, Margar...

FLAMES AND FURIES! Get ready for hundreds of pages of exclamations, ejaculations, and interjections! But really, there is a lot of ejaculati...

Whether or not you know anything about Greek Mythology is irrelevant when it comes to reading Circe. You could go in cold, like I did, or wi...

This is a classic beach or vacation read, with  I Know What You Did Last Summer vibes but. You know, I say that, but I haven't read th...

"No one is suggesting anyone should react to anything in any particular way." I think that is the guiding principle of many people...

This is a book best discovered blind, without knowing the plot or even genre. But if you already know, or don't mind mild spoilers, read...