Book Review: While You Sleep by Caillou Pettis
While You Sleep
Series: Newryst #1
Author: Caillou Pettis
Published: March 8, 2022
140 Pages
Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 5 stars
Book Description:
Welcome to the city of Newryst – one of the most terrifying places known to mankind. On the surface, it seems to be a bustling city full of big dreams and hopeful ambitions, but upon closer inspection, it’s actually the focal point of some of the most horrifying and unexplainable cases ever documented.
In this collection, you’ll read ten pulse-pounding tales. An ordinary man experiences the most extreme form of sleep paralysis ever documented. A young boy wakes up in an unfamiliar room and must do everything it takes to escape. An antique store owner comes into possession of a mysterious music box with a cursed backstory. A man continuously hears clicking noises coming from deep inside his walls. Two radio hosts receive unsettling news while broadcasting live on air.
What do all of these stories have in common? They all occur in the city of Newryst. Take a journey into the mind of author Caillou Pettis as he walks you through all of the most disturbing events throughout the history of Newryst.
Kim’s Review:
This is a really good anthology! Normally I’m not a huge fan, especially when I have a hard time seeing the commonality in the stories, but that’s what I liked about this book. I didn’t have to search for it. All the stories take place in the same city, and that’s it. I went into it with that simple piece of info and it made all the difference. When I wasn’t looking for things in common, they just started appearing. And then, the most important thing: it was pretty creepy! So many of these stories gave me chills! I don’t want to say too much or give anything away so this is one of those reviews where I tell you to just read it and you’re welcome! An excellent anthology!
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Book Review: Your Turn to Suffer by Tim Waggoner
Your Turn to Suffer
Author: Tim Waggoner
Published: March 23, 2021
256 Pages
Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Lorelai Palumbo is harassed by a sinister group calling themselves The Cabal. They accuse her of having committed unspeakable crimes in the past, and now she must pay. The Cabal begins taking her life apart one piece at a time – her job, her health, the people she loves – and she must try to figure out what The Cabal thinks she’s done if she’s to have any hope of answering their charges and salvaging her life.
Kim’s Review:
Random find at Gene’s Books! Every time I go there, I find books that aren’t on the shelves at B&N or Books-a-Million and I just love the discoveries I make there! This book saw me coming! Hooded figures demanding Lorelai to “confess and atone— or suffer”. Y’all know I’m all about secret societies, so I bought it and moved it right to the top of my list! Unfortunately, it wasn’t what I was expecting. Not a failure by any means, just not what I was hoping for. This was an odd paranormal/sci-fi-ish kinda book. My main problem that brings it down a whole star is that I wish I knew what was going on. What is this Balance. When did the Cabal start? What about this Intercessor? I need more information!!! I did enjoy reading it; it was a little slow at the beginning but then when it went off, it went! There were some truly scary scenes and I think any horror fan would really enjoy this book. A successful find!!
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Book Review: Sundial by Catriona Ward
Sundial
Author: Catriona Ward
Published: March 1, 2022
304 Pages
Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 3.5 stars
Book Description:
You can’t escape what’s in your blood…
All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind.
She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.
Callie is worried about her mother. Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive…
The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future.
Kim’s Review:
This is an odd one. I’m not sure why it was put in the horror section; I would classify it more as a thriller. I wasn’t actually scared by this book, but that twist was pretty crazy. There were too many annoying things in it for me to say that I liked it. I hated how Rob let her husband walk all over her; how Falcon didn’t raise the girls, just let them run wild; how Rob let Callie know that she preferred Annie … I was just too annoyed to really enjoy any of it. Honestly the only thing that saved this book was the twist; it was a struggle to get there, but it was twisty all right. I can’t really say that I’d recommend this book, but I also wouldn’t tell anyone not to read it. So it was just meh.
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