I thought my fan fiction days were over, but when I saw the huge hype around a Dramione fan fiction called Manacled being traditionally published, I was obviously curious. Seems like nothing, not even time and leaving fan spaces, could deter me from going back to my roots. My initial curiosity, mixed with people's opinion on TikTok insisting that Manacled destroyed them as well as the beautiful, gothic cover art, made me choose Alchemised by SenLinYu for October's book club

If you’re following us on TikTok, you would already know that I went to Toppings & Company in Bath and picked one of the wrapped books on the Blind Dates with a Book table for the month of August. And if you haven't seen the video yet, go to TikTok now and follow us! Camp Damascus follows the story of Rose Darling who is haunted by an eerie woman with sagging skin and can't stop regurgitating flies at the dinner table. As she notices strange events happening around her relig

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the advanced reader copy! Am I back with another ARC review? Yes. Yes, I am. Without further ado, let's jump right in! 6:40 to Montreal is a locked-room mystery thriller told from the perspective of writer Agatha as she boards the train to Montreal on a first-class ticket. It’s a gift from her husband to help combat her writer’s block, but Agatha has other plans which quickly get derailed when the train breaks down in the mi

After attending Lisa Jewell's book launch event hosted by Waterstones, I was so excited to read this book. Especially as CY talked so highly of Lisa Jewell's other books, in particular The Family Upstairs . Don't Let Him In follows a series of women, most notably Ash, Nina and Martha, who unwittingly become entangled in the unravelling of a dark and twisted tale. It also follows the handsome and charming Nick, who enters Nina and Ash's lives suddenly and seems to be the perfe

For the month of June, I was torn between two books that both incidentally had blue covers. I'm not sure if it's because summer reminds...

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Del Rey for the advanced reader copy! When I first saw this book on NetGalley, what piqued my interest was the cover and the blurb. I love horror, and recently I’ve been interested in stories about witches, so this came at the perfect time. Then I realised it was by the same author who wrote Mexican Gothic  (a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while), and I was even more grateful to receive the ARC. The Bewitching

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the advanced reader copy! After picking up yet another horror novel, I have finally come to a realisation as to why I've been gravitating towards this genre recently. My brother traumatised me as a child by forcing me to watch horror movies with him (we're talking about Jeepers Creepers and A Nightmare on Elm Street ), and whilst I don't think I could ever go back to watching horror again (unless I close my eyes for half the

I was recommended this book several times, and after the Netflix show came out it jumped up my list so that I could read it before...

For my birthday month, I was eager to try something different, a book whose themes would grip me so hard that I would still feel their...