Bark At The Ghouls

This was a pretty good vampire novel. My 2 Cents for Free! So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison Released September 2024 Source: Audible Purchase See more @ Goodreads This was a readable, reasonably entertaining vampire novel. There are some funny moments and a few irritating ones but I think maybe I've read too many angsty vampire novels at this point in my life because much of the horror bits felt familiar which is fine. Not every book has to be earth shattering and boundary breaking. It's a good book to fall into if you want help forgetting the world for a little bit. Sloan is absolutely dreading her birthday. She's turning 36 or 37 or somewhere around there (sorry, I didn't write it down) anyhow she's NOT OLD but she doesn't care to celebrate another year of her eyelids drooping and her hands turning from youthful to "witchy". Woman, embrace that shit. Use those hands to scare off annoying kiddies and men! Anyhow, she's too caught up in all of that stu...

The people are awful but I couldn't stop reading. My 2 Cents for Free! Play Nice by Rachel Harrison Released September 2025 Source: Book of the Month Club (you can join here using my referral link) Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads Chappell Roan could've soundtracked this one. "I love being bitter It makes me feel better Bitter feels better than tryna get better and I Yes, I love being bitter But it makes me feel weathered Now I'm sick in the head and it's not even my fault" I've read much of Rachel Harrison's work and this one harkens back to the bitterness between the friends featured in The Return. That one wasn't my favorite, but I may reread and may have a change of heart. I think I'm digging these bitter characters lately. This time around it focuses on a family with many secrets and secret resentments while a demon may or may not be thriving as they emotionally destroy themselves. There's a lot of rage and...

I purchased a copy of Bad Dolls when Audible had a very good sale a little bit ago. 80% off? Thank you very much. Anyone read this one? My 2 Cents for Free! Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison Released September 2022 Source: Audible Purchase Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads These stories are what I’d call “horror adjacent” so keep that in mind if you’re expecting the creepy crawlies. They’re more about complicated, messy women (Bad Dolls, I guess?) and their complicated relationships than they are about the trad horrors. But being a woman is sometimes a horror all in itself so there’s that. Reply Hazy, Try Again This is a tale about a woman who purchases a used 8 Ball and realizes her current relationship kind of sucks. Is the 8 Ball just being spicy or is it helping her out? I didn’t like any of these people and that’s ok but the story didn’t thrill me too much either. 2.5? Bachelorette This one drives home that some friendships really need to die a natural death. It...

This was fantastic on audio! It almost made me look forward to housework.   Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison Released September 2023 Source: Library Borrow Goodreads  | Amazon A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it me...

You'll love this if you dig a little side of romance with your gruesome body horror. Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison Released October 2022 Source: Library Borrow Goodreads  | Amazon A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she's attacked. Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She's unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver--and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She's ch...