In honour of Halloween, today's Suspiciously-Specific micro-trope that I love is all about books inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I've talked about this classic multiple times on here, as I have a strange relationship with the novel itself. Although I don't particularly love the original text, I adore everything it stands for as a part of the literary canon. I love the themes, the histy behind its creation and the legacy it inspired. It's not a surprise then, that I'

Echoes - Evie Wyld Genre : literary fiction Pagecount : 304 pages The haunted house is a modern-day appartment... Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. Rose/House - Arkady Martine Genre : sci-fi novella Pagecount : 115 pages The haunted house is a fully-automated futuri

A reading-blog in which I attempt to beat my readingslump by reading recently released horror-novella's until I find a 5-star...

Lanny – Max Porter Genre: literary fiction, magical realism Pagecount: 210 pages A literary novel that reads almost like an extended poem about a young boy who disappears into the local English woods, and the mythological figure of Dead Papa Toothwort - essentially a spirit of the forest, akin to the Green Man - who watches the following events unfold from the shadows of the trees. The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater Genre: Young Adult, magical realism Pagecount: 409 pages The

We've reached the halfway point of the year, which means it's time for a Mid-Year check-in. I will stick to my trialed and true format of...

October Releases The Leaving Room - Amber McBride Synopsis: Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room—a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along. Gospel assumes that there are countless other Leaving Rooms because many children pass, but she suspects they are not like her Leaving Room which is small (like a walk in closet)with shelves full of tiny jar

The start of April brings Q1 of my reading-year to a close, making it time for a little check-in. My quarterly wrap-ups have taken many...

My top 25 priority reads for the new year

2024 has been a great reading-year for me. So much so that, rather than giving a shout out to some honourable mentions here, there’s a...

2024 has been a fantastic year for me, both on the pages of the books I read, as well as in my actual real-life. It’s been a year of...

Despite feeling like an overall good reading year, 2024 still brought some duds my way. There’s a strange katharsis in spilling a...

My 5-part Year-In-Review Series has become a treasured staple for me to wrap up my year ever since the dawn of this blog. Usually the...

I’m switching things up a little bit this year, and kicking off my year in review looking forward rather than back . One of my favourite...

2024 was the year where I fully embraced my novella-era, learning to appreciate the art and power of shorter books instead of only the...

July Releases The Bewitching - Silvia Moreno Garcia Synopsis: Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this...

I vividly remember my final read of Q2, as I rushed to push it into my mid-year-wrap up as one of my favourites only a day after...

The first half of 2024 brought some absolute gems, but the second has potential to be just as great when it comes to new releases. Here...

With July almost upon us, we’ve reached the mid-year point, which means it’s time for my Mid-year check-in. What once started as a...

For quite some time, magical realism was my most read genre, so there wasn’t a lack of titles to choose from when it came to selecting my favourites. Magical realism has a long history as a genre, and elements of it are often combined with different genre-elements like horror, science-fiction, romance or even autobiographical writing. Bellow you’ll find my running Top-20 favourites, as well as a handful of honourable mentions. For your ease of navigation, I’ve divided them in

Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, horror was a genre I actively avoided. Having my only exposure to it as a child/young teen being the cheesy spooks of the Goosebumps-books, I never really developed a taste for them. Then, a few years ago, well into my personal reading-renaissance, I suddenly found myself possessed by the spirit of horror and delved deep into the dark, gothic and chilling side of fiction. As of today, horror is probably in my top-5 genres from which I read the