Bark At The Ghouls

This one was not for me but I read it anyway. My 2 Cents for Free! Gothikana by Runyx Released June 2021 Source: Kindle Unlimited See more @  Goodreads I started this book on Kindle Unlimited, had to put it aside, forgot about it and restarted it on audio from the beginning because all of the details dropped out of my brain.  I guess there was a reason I put it aside. . . Anyhow, here are my thoughts. I love a dark story that takes place in an old castle, house or school where evil may still be lurking atop every ancient staircase or waiting in the forest to getcha. Some of these old places have seen some shit. This story takes place in a university where sketchy things have happened upon its grounds. Students seem to “go missing” during the annual Black Ball (or whatever it was called - my mind is a sieve) and no one seems to give a damn. They just keep on keeping on, probably glad it wasn’t them! Corvina was homeschooled and sheltered from society, raised by a mostly ...

Bloom is a beautifully crafted nightmare. My 2 Cents for Free! Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson Released October 2023 Source: Spotify Audio Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads This story lulls you in with what appears to be a sweet, healing romance but soon enough the dark undertones start rising to the surface. Ro(semary) meets the most beautiful girl in the world, an elfin cottagecore dreamgirl come to life, at the farmers market. She is smitten. She’s also recovering from a breakup from a guy who ruined her self-esteem and gave her an issue or two. Ash is very private but allows Ro into parts of her life but Ro is consumed by wanting to know everything about her and her nosiness and insecurity and complete lack of boundaries (ugh) has her snooping where she shouldn’t be snooping . . . I loved and adored everything about this book. It’s a lovely romance on its surface but there are sinister moments that peek through and the slow burn really pays off in the last few ac...

I read this for the first time a little bit ago and I liked it 💗  What's not to like about dark love?! Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Released 1872 (!) Horror Fiction  |   Goodreads  | Amazon   Source: Audible Freebie A classic Victorian vampire novella, which influenced Bram Stoker's later treatment of the vampire mythos in Dracula. These Are My Thoughts This was my first reading of this classic tale of dark secrets written in 1872. 1872?! That fact stuns me after finally giving this a novella read. There is a quite a surprising amount of sexuality for such an ancient tome or did the world get ever more prudish as the years went by? There were lesbian kisses and touches and I think I even detected a wee bit of some non-consensual touchy-feely too! But, man, is it ever flowery in its telling. The purple prose is oh-so-strong but it really does throw one back in time and allow the atmosphere to drip off the page so ...

This one releases today. Just in time for Valentine's Day, lol! Without Condition by Sonora Taylor Dark Fiction Released February 12, 2109 Goodreads  | Amazon Cara Vineyard lives a quiet life in rural North Carolina. She works for an emerging brewery, drives her truck late at night, and lives with her mother on a former pumpkin farm. Her mother is proud of her and keeps a wall displaying all of Cara’s accomplishments. Cara isn’t so much proud as she is bored. She’s revitalized when she meets Jackson Price, a pharmacist in Raleigh. Every day they spend together, she falls for him a little more — which in turn makes her life more complicated. When Cara goes on her late-night drives, she often picks up men. Those men tend to die. And when Cara comes back to the farm, she brings a memento for her mother to add to her wall of accomplishments. Cara’s mother loves her no matter what. But she doesn’t know if Jackson will feel the same — and she doesn’t want to find out. ...