Bark At The Ghouls

Proceed with caution. My 2 Cents for Free! American Rapture by C.J. Leede Released October 2024 Source: Purchased from Aardvark Bookbox See more @ Goodreads American Rapture is a trip through a lust apocalypse told through the eyes of a very sheltered, catholic teen named Sophie. As the virus spreads, she escapes her oppressive life and hits the road to find her twin brother with a ragtag group of survivors and a beautiful, protective dog. I enjoyed this book and yet I didn't. It started out strong as we learn all about Sophie's terrible life with her religious extremist parents and it was all very timely. And I thought the trapped on the highway scene was chilling. I've probably read/watched far too much horror but whenever there is wall to wall stopped traffic on the highway and I'm alone in my car my mind envisions terrible things. This book added a few more. But then the story started to meander for me as she and a band of survivors run around trying to figure out w...

Maybe it'd be better for someone who doesn't read a steady diet of horror novels? My 2 Cents for Free! Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce Released February 2025 Source: ARC for review See more @  Goodreads This book purports to be one thing and then turns out to be something else which is fine, if ultimately a bit disappointing. Mina has just finished her child psychology degree when she meets a journalist named Sam at a grief session. Sam mentions a story he’s working on where he can really use her kind of help and promises her it’ll be a great start to her career. So, she leaves behind her wedding plans, her lame fiancé who can’t be bothered to notice and together they travel to a small town to interview a family and their daughter named Alice who claims to be haunted? possessed? bothered? by a dead witch. This town is inhabited by a whole bunch of superstitious people. Weird things begin to happen. I loved this portion of the book but once a few reveals were made and odd...

Le Sigh. The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer Released July 2024, 352 pgs Source: Purchased from Book of the Month Goodreads  |  Amazon Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons’ investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth ab...

This one didn't entirely work for me. The Hacienda by Isabel Canas Released May 2022 Source: Library Borrow Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Bookshop Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, ...