I admit, the very first thing that drew this book to me was the gloriously creepy cover. However, the synopsis also had me pretty much convinced too! Any book about Norse mythology is always going to catch my attention. The fact that it set in a modern setting is just icing on the cake! my review of the twisted tree The story is about a young girl called Martha who […]
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is top ten: Hidden Gem Books in The X Genre My favourite horror classic IT by Stephen King is getting a well-overdue big screen adaptation which is (finally!) being released next week so I have decided to focus my attention on some less well-known but equally excellent horror novels for this […]
Living Dead Doll Figurines – The Collection So Far… I must confess I have always been a bit of a collector. One of my favourite things to collect has been Mezco’s Living Dead Doll series. This line of gothic/horror dolls was created by Ed Long and Damien Glonek and has been on the go since 2000 (manufactured by Mezco Toyz). At the moment there is a grand total of 26 […]
80s and 90s YA Fiction The Young Adult book market has changed a lot over the years. I read a great deal of YA fiction throughout the 1990s (the vast majority of which was actually published in the 1980s). The genre was quite different back then. There was not the vast array of choice that there is for younger readers nowadays. There really has been something of a boom in […]
The Devil’s Reprise is the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Devil’s Metal, a book which managed to both thrill me and chill me to my very core; the blending of scares and emotional gut-punches making it one of my favourite reads of this year. I have been anxiously awaiting the release of The Devil’s Reprise with some trepidation – I loved the first book so much I feared it would never live up to […]