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“One thing they don’t tell you about when someone you love dies because of a sickness is that death happens in a million different ways in the lead up to the actual moment”
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
After Mackenzie wakes hi with a severed crows head in her hands panic ensues inside her. Every night she returns to a dream featuring her dead sister and in her waking hours she’s stalked by a murder of crows.
Mackenzie feels like she’s being called home for answers to her dreams.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Let me ask you a question, what does horror mean to you?
I think people forget how deep horror can go when they read that’s not THEIR idea of horror. This book is the perfect example of it.
The Indigenous lore and beliefs with family relations tied together in a really beautiful tale of horror mixed in dreams and reality.
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
After Mackenzie wakes hi with a severed crows head in her hands panic ensues inside her. Every night she returns to a dream featuring her dead sister and in her waking hours she’s stalked by a murder of crows.
Mackenzie feels like she’s being called home for answers to her dreams.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Let me ask you a question, what does horror mean to you?
I think people forget how deep horror can go when they read that’s not THEIR idea of horror. This book is the perfect example of it.
The Indigenous lore and beliefs with family relations tied together in a really beautiful tale of horror mixed in dreams and reality.
“Over time, those bones were slowly replaced with minerals. Petrified into immortality. Transformed into the real treasure. A treasure that was often hiding in plain sight, and could be overlooked if you didn’t know what you were looking for. It was the kind of treasure that people kill for. Fossils.”
The Bone Wars by Erin Evan
Publication Date: April 11, 2023
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
A sixteen year old intern working in the Badlands of Montana uncovers a strange fossil that no one has ever seen before.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Thank you to @NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This book started out promising enough, not that interesting but I felt like it could be good… but that’s where it ended for me. I was so bored I didn’t even retain anything from this book, was it good? Was it bad? Boring was more the word than anything.
The Bone Wars by Erin Evan
Publication Date: April 11, 2023
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
A sixteen year old intern working in the Badlands of Montana uncovers a strange fossil that no one has ever seen before.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Thank you to @NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This book started out promising enough, not that interesting but I felt like it could be good… but that’s where it ended for me. I was so bored I didn’t even retain anything from this book, was it good? Was it bad? Boring was more the word than anything.
slow-paced
“… how are we still living in a time when every book we study is written by a dead white guy?”
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Publication Date - April 4, 2023
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
After accidentally starting rumours of the cemetery she lives in being haunted, Winifred makes friends with a ghost of a teen who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery. This leads Winifred to start asking questioning everything she knows about life, love and death.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
First, thank you Penguin Random House Canada & NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
I never thought I’d be saying this… this is the first book I think I would have rather had a physical to read or a multi narrator audio book.
The story it’s self is a beautiful one, but I found myself getting confused and losing interest because the dual timelines are not divided up, so we can’t tell which is the past and which is the present. I feel like there are going to be two groups for this one,
Love it or Hate it, and I think a big part of that is going to be the lack of division when we’re changing POVs
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Publication Date - April 4, 2023
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
After accidentally starting rumours of the cemetery she lives in being haunted, Winifred makes friends with a ghost of a teen who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery. This leads Winifred to start asking questioning everything she knows about life, love and death.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
First, thank you Penguin Random House Canada & NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
I never thought I’d be saying this… this is the first book I think I would have rather had a physical to read or a multi narrator audio book.
The story it’s self is a beautiful one, but I found myself getting confused and losing interest because the dual timelines are not divided up, so we can’t tell which is the past and which is the present. I feel like there are going to be two groups for this one,
Love it or Hate it, and I think a big part of that is going to be the lack of division when we’re changing POVs
“A man can only stare at the shadows for so long before they drive him insane.”
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Narrated by J.S. Arquin
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Faye and Felix, an engaged couple go away to her families cabin to celebrate their new engagement. A dark figure soon makes an appearance and strange things start happening.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This isn’t the first time I’m reading this book, I read it back in 2021 with @the_bookeyman and this year I listened to the audiobook. It hit just as hard two years later as it did the first time.
This is one of my favourite horror books, where the author has an amazing note that I read before reading the book, for reasons.
Do not recommend reading in the dark, when you’re alone and live in the country.
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Narrated by J.S. Arquin
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Faye and Felix, an engaged couple go away to her families cabin to celebrate their new engagement. A dark figure soon makes an appearance and strange things start happening.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This isn’t the first time I’m reading this book, I read it back in 2021 with @the_bookeyman and this year I listened to the audiobook. It hit just as hard two years later as it did the first time.
This is one of my favourite horror books, where the author has an amazing note that I read before reading the book, for reasons.
Do not recommend reading in the dark, when you’re alone and live in the country.
“Never let your obstacles become more important than your goals.”
The Bus 57: A True Story of Two a teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Narrated by Robin Miles
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Two high school teenagers have their lives changed when one makes a terrible decision.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I loved this, I think it’s because of the position I’m in at work and I see how decisions young people make daily changes their lives.
This was rough to read at points but such a great and important book for young people to read.
The Bus 57: A True Story of Two a teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Narrated by Robin Miles
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Two high school teenagers have their lives changed when one makes a terrible decision.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I loved this, I think it’s because of the position I’m in at work and I see how decisions young people make daily changes their lives.
This was rough to read at points but such a great and important book for young people to read.
This Place: 150 Years Retold
David A. Robertson, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Jen Storm, Katherena Vermette, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Brandon Mitchell, Richard Van Camp, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sonny Assu
“We are also Métis madame, no more than savages to some”
This Place - 150 Years Retold
Stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, Jen Storm, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, David Alexander Robertson Richard Van Camp, Brandon Mitchell, Sonny Assu, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Illustrations by G.M.B. Chomichuk, Scott B. Henderson, Tara Audibert, Natasha Donovan, Kyle Charles, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk, Andrew Lodwick, Ryan Howe
Foreword by Alicia Elliott
QUICK RECAP 🖊️
This Place takes you through 150 years from the eyes of Indigenous people with beautiful illustrations.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This needs to be in all schools and readily available everyone immediately. It’s a graphic novel broken up into short stories over the last 150 years, it’s a quick read so just go read it now k thanks.
There was only one story where I found the colours made it difficult for me to read.
This Place - 150 Years Retold
Stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, Jen Storm, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, David Alexander Robertson Richard Van Camp, Brandon Mitchell, Sonny Assu, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Illustrations by G.M.B. Chomichuk, Scott B. Henderson, Tara Audibert, Natasha Donovan, Kyle Charles, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk, Andrew Lodwick, Ryan Howe
Foreword by Alicia Elliott
QUICK RECAP 🖊️
This Place takes you through 150 years from the eyes of Indigenous people with beautiful illustrations.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This needs to be in all schools and readily available everyone immediately. It’s a graphic novel broken up into short stories over the last 150 years, it’s a quick read so just go read it now k thanks.
There was only one story where I found the colours made it difficult for me to read.
“I think the human mind isn’t comfortable with mysteries. We’re always looking for answers to the unexplained. And if an answer can’t come from facts, we’ll try to cobble one together from old stories.”
Devolution by Max Brooks
Narrated by Judy Greer, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Fillion, Mira Furlan, Terry Gross, Kimberly Guerrero, Kate Mulgrew, Kai Ryssdal, Steven Weber
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
An eruption from Mount Rainier leaves a small community stranded. The horrors the ensue while their isolated are finally coming to light.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I LOVE a full cast narration! This one was so great to listen to, I feel like some books are meant to be listened to and this is one of them. We have survival, horror, science, cryptids. We get an inside look at how people react when they’re isolated and under threat of something they are not familiar with.
Devolution by Max Brooks
Narrated by Judy Greer, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Fillion, Mira Furlan, Terry Gross, Kimberly Guerrero, Kate Mulgrew, Kai Ryssdal, Steven Weber
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
An eruption from Mount Rainier leaves a small community stranded. The horrors the ensue while their isolated are finally coming to light.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I LOVE a full cast narration! This one was so great to listen to, I feel like some books are meant to be listened to and this is one of them. We have survival, horror, science, cryptids. We get an inside look at how people react when they’re isolated and under threat of something they are not familiar with.
““Do you have a plan?”
“I did have a plan. It was a very good plan, but then you put on those pajamas.””
Radiant Sin by Katee Robert
Book 4 in the Dark Olympus Series
Narrated by Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Fourth book gives us a modern retelling of Apollo and Cassandra. The grown child of a disgraced family and one of the 13th join forces to try to find answers of the newest members of Olympus and why they’re here.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I liked this one just fine. But Cassandra’s attitude bugged me a few times I just wanted to shake that chip off her shoulder. But I found myself liking it less and less. I wanted more for Apollo and more from their relationship. It just sort of fell flat. The side characters give me more interest than these two.
“I did have a plan. It was a very good plan, but then you put on those pajamas.””
Radiant Sin by Katee Robert
Book 4 in the Dark Olympus Series
Narrated by Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Fourth book gives us a modern retelling of Apollo and Cassandra. The grown child of a disgraced family and one of the 13th join forces to try to find answers of the newest members of Olympus and why they’re here.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
I liked this one just fine. But Cassandra’s attitude bugged me a few times I just wanted to shake that chip off her shoulder. But I found myself liking it less and less. I wanted more for Apollo and more from their relationship. It just sort of fell flat. The side characters give me more interest than these two.
“If there were more people who cared, who believed in the rights of all living things, maybe the planet could be saved”
Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Follow one extended Cherokee family through time from 1830s in the tribes homeland to the future. Broken into short stories to give you a piece of each time period.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This isn’t my first book written in this way, but my first with such a long time frame. I loved having these broken into short stories giving you a look into that period of time and the monsters that come along with it. But let’s not forget the illustrations that are paired with each story. This style of writing isn’t for everyone but i highly recommend.
Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Follow one extended Cherokee family through time from 1830s in the tribes homeland to the future. Broken into short stories to give you a piece of each time period.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This isn’t my first book written in this way, but my first with such a long time frame. I loved having these broken into short stories giving you a look into that period of time and the monsters that come along with it. But let’s not forget the illustrations that are paired with each story. This style of writing isn’t for everyone but i highly recommend.
“Who the fuck called dibs on another human? She wasn’t the last donut, for fuck’s sake, she was a person.”
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Book three of four in the Boys of Bellerose series. A mafia/rockstar RH series. Bellerose needs to come together be show a United front with so much thrown at them to divide them.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Cliffhangers are going to be the death of me, so much came from left field in this book, morally grey characters? Yes please. These books are so hard to read as they’re released because I need more immediately.
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Book three of four in the Boys of Bellerose series. A mafia/rockstar RH series. Bellerose needs to come together be show a United front with so much thrown at them to divide them.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
Cliffhangers are going to be the death of me, so much came from left field in this book, morally grey characters? Yes please. These books are so hard to read as they’re released because I need more immediately.