Recent Reads: Two Mini Horror Reviews: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker & Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen

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Two Mini Horror Reviews💀

“Closing your eyes doesn’t stop monsters from devouring you.”

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker, a brutal, intense, gruesome, and nightmare-inducing exploration of ignorance, hate, cruelty, and racism. Stark in its realism, it’s terrifying, unputdownable, and laced with fascinating Chinese folklore and compelling paranormal and extreme horror elements. An astounding and impactful grief horror novel that’s timely and unflinching, horrible and beautiful.

“Grief can make us do the most peculiar things.”

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Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen, a Netherlands-set, Victorian-era tale of sisterly bonds; sapphic love; toxic masculinity; intense hunger; sordid secrets; bog bodies; and female identity, madness, oppression, and illness. Violent and grisly, vulgar and shocking, visceral and atmospheric, it offers a unique and creative twist on vampire lore bolstered by epistolary interjections and short chapters that make pages fly past.

❤Amanda

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