And Carly Beth returns! She is not the main character in this one, but she does play a vital role. We have a new mask and a new evil motive - but from the same shop! A lot of sequels do not live up to the original, but this one sure did. Fun for all and really enjoyed! Definitely set up to have a third... 4 stars!

I honestly do not even know where to begin with this. Can I just say it was bloody brilliant and move on? Okay, okay... I guess I can say some more things about why I loved it.

Well, first of all... I have read a few things from Gemma Amor and the way she writes about loss and grieving is unlike anyone else. She can take those emotions and build any story around them I think. In this story, Laura loses her friend Bobby when they are young to a man i a van in the woods. And she never forgot it. She starts receiving letters in the mail On her birthday from a stranger claiming to know what happened and where Bobby is. But this is a game of quid pro quo - the stranger wants things in return before any information can be divulged with each letter.

Did anyone ever read the book Sophie's World? it's about a girl who comes home one day and finds a letter in her mailbox asking a couple of questions... and then we begin following her as she is in this snail mail correspondence course/letter exchange with someone who is filling her head with some of the minds of the greatest philosophers who ever existed. Okay.. so Dear Laura is like that... only with blood, terror, anxiety, panic, and fear. Sounds awesome?! YES BECAUSE IT IS!

This is a fast read but your head will be racing the whole time. Amor really knocks it out of the park with Dear Laura - 5 stars!!

What?! That is how it ends? Okay.. okay... I have to process this. But I am thinking 4.5 or 5 stars until then!

Lot of thoughts on this one. Review to come.

Ok, so like the Stefon GIF above indicates, this book has EVERYTHING: fratty bros, extreme caving trip, scares, sex, gore, mutants, a man with multiple heads in his chest cavity, a werejaguar, a big wrestler turned Satanist, a girl who uses her own "ingredients" in cookies for her friends (i.e. feces, bulimia vomit, ejaculate, etc...), a man with breasts that lactate, and so much more.

Carlton Mellick has done it once again and this book is SO wild! 5 easy stars for sheer creativity and execution of all the best features and qualities in a bizarro horror story!

The Ancestor was just the book that I needed right now while being in quarantine. This book whisked me away to a dark and creepy castle in the Italian Alps to be surrounded by mysterious family secrets linked to an ominous and supernatural threat.

The language and storytelling in this book are both top notch - reading each page is like wrapping yourself up in silk and the words and descriptions just flow so beautifully. There are definite nods to Dracula and Frankenstein in this. The gothic horror aspect of this story is extremely well done. The format even alters here and there and we get to read out of journal entries and memoirs (I have always loved when an author does this) to gain some history and start putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

This book will have you questioning your DNA, your ancestry, and everything you thought was a truth! Highly recommended and this is a 4.5 star read (rounded up for Goodreads)! That last half star is due to the way the book ended - it went a different route/tone than expected for me with a little less explanation/resolution than the rest of the book. Many thanks to the author for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Another twist ending that makes you wanna go, "OooOoOoOoOOOh" like a ghost! I had fun with this one but it was not as amazing as I remember - which is valid. I love the idea of a haunted house that is so big that 2 kids keep doing tour after tour to see it all and try and solve the legend of the headless ghost. The ending was superb and this is going to be one to re-read around Halloween for years to come!

This is the first splatter western I have read as well as the first book from Wile E. Young and it will not be the last of either! It took a couple chapters to settle me into this world and a slightly different genre than I am used to, but once I found my way into this new universe there was no time to look back. Young takes you on a thrill ride of revenge and intrigue with our protagonist, Salem Covington, and he makes him this mysterious badass of a character that you want to meet but would never, ever want to anger. There are some INTENSE scenes in this book and I could smell and see everything at all times. Young did an incredible job at painting a scenery and all the descriptions of exactly what is going on. Your mind will explode with this book and you will never think the same of pigs again!

5 stars! A GREAT first book in a series of splatter westerns being released by Death's Head Press. Thanks for allowing Night Worms the opportunity to book party this!

I struggled connecting with this one a bit as it is more character-based and less plot-driven. There are odd punctuation and capitalization features that also kept distracting me and made it a little difficult to read - even though I get what was trying to be accomplished. Then throw in that it has the gothic/Victorian horror elements which require a certain mindset and way to connect to the book and I just felt that I hovered around only grasping a portion of what the book was trying to tell me.

The plot intrigued me enough and then the self-harm and thoughts that our protagonist endures are haunting and disturbing. But I could not help but feel nothing is really explained as much and the characters are not totally developed enough for me. The ending was a little too predictable to me and I still found myself a little perturbed.

2.5 stars - just not for me but I see several 5-star reviews so you may need to check it out for yourself, too!

WOW! Dead Daughters is the latest Tim Meyer book I read and it was another homerun for me! In this book we get a blend of psychological horror and thriller and I thought I had a few things figured out here and there, but I was wrong every time. I read this one in two sittings because I just could not put it down... and the ending left me happy and simultaneously ready for more with that final sentence. "Aha!" I exclaimed when I read those last words.

Truly unputdownable, Dead Daughters explores a lot of different topics and fears. The characters are very well fleshed out and the format of the story keeps the book flowing. We get little "letters" interspersed between chapters that make you scratch your head until the veil is lifted.

Highly recommend this one! 5 stars!