Recent Reads: Two Mini Horror Reviews

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“This place breathed untold stories.”

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Welcome to Meadowbrook by Cassandra L. Thompson, a gripping, macabre, and atmospheric historical/sci-fi/gothic horror amalgam spanning 154 years of one building’s many iterations as asylum, hotel, casino, retreat, and school. A story of stories with shifting viewpoints and time periods that gradually unveils sinister secrets, dark histories, curated lies, labyrinthine realities, and horrifying legends. Eerie, creepy, gruesome, visceral, mind-bending, and time-melding complete with unique rules and world-building surrounding themes of freedom, mortality, and luxury that can be read forward or backward, if you dare!

“Give them no rest beloved Virgin for we ourselves have none.”

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Woodworm by Layla Martínez, a brutal, rage-filled tale of fraught familial histories, class wars, generational trauma, shadows, specters, curses, lies, vengeance, violence, angels, and saints where misery reigns, people are toxic, and poverty, exploitation, abuse, savagery, and death abound. It’s a chilling, sharp-edged narrative of root and rot, hate and desire, envy and frustration, disgust and compassion, jealousy and despair, disquiet and disgrace, debts and curses, prices and payments, morals and cowards, grudges and justice. A miserable, tense, relentless, class-conscious account that haunts and seethes.

🖤Amanda

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