Bark At The Ghouls

I envy those of you who compose thoughtful reviews of everything you read! I tend to be an all or nothing type of person and when I'm feeling worn out I just stop reviewing and blogging which isn't the best thing for a blog. I may start doing a quickie wrap up post and including short snippets of the books I didn't fully review or finish for whatever reason. That way I won't feel the pressure of utter failure. This is what April looked like and below are the books I've (so far) missed including on the blog due to no fault of their own. *I've just started The Last Witch & Girl Dinner for the Horror Spotlight discord readalong. The Last Witch is making very angry at the men and I have zero thoughts on Girl Dinner as I'm only on chapter 2. Full review is coming for The Cellar Below the Cellar. *I've since finished (or attempted to) these two books and added them to this round-up. And here's my joyful reading partner, Benny Ben Ben who is so h...

So much has changed,  yet so little has changed. Le Sigh. My 2 Cents for Free! The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke Released October 2022 Source: Purchased Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads This is my favorite of the three CJ Cooke books I've read. The other two were The Lighthouse Witches and The Book of Witching . I think I gave them both a three. One of them had two timelines which is sometimes tricky when they don't connect for the majority of the story. It often drives me nuts but that wasn't a problem at all in this one. The timelines here are only a few years apart and they meld somewhere at the midway point.  The Ghost Woods tells the story of several young women who are sent "away" when their pregnancies become an inconvenience that their families just want to shove under the rug. Why is society always so awful to women? Ugh. Anyhow, sometimes they're allowed back but more often than not, especially for the ones without means, they'r...

It's a 3 for me. The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke Released October 2021 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Bookshop Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years lat...