ryinwonderland's Reviews (892)

This book is a gentle evisceration. This book is grief and sorrow and trauma and pain. This book is anguish. This book hurts. This book is a fresh grave of agony with a promise of relief on the other side. 

For a cis-het white guy with no kids, Grady Hendrix sure does nail pregnancy and childbirth.
This book is upsetting and horrific and heartbreaking and beautiful and cathartic and witchy and perfect. I loved it. I cringed. I cried. Grady hasn’t let me down yet.

Here's my staff pick review:
Grady Hendrix has done it again. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is set in a Home for Unwed Mothers in the 50s where a few of the pregnant teenagers discover real witchcraft, for better or worse. 

This book is upsetting and horrific and heartbreaking and beautiful and cathartic and witchy and perfect. I loved it. I cringed. I cried. 

As someone who has birthed two children, trust me when I say that Grady Hendrix somehow nailed the pains and discomforts of pregnancy and childbirth with terrifying accuracy. 

This book is gruesomely visceral in the best way. It might just be his best yet. 

Clay McLeod Chapman’s newest horror goes for the throat of modern-day America and absolutely no one is safe. 

Not even you. 

Unflinching, cruel, and terrifying, this book grips you tight and forces you to peer through the oily film of the supernatural and demonic to confront the reflection of yourself, your family, and society and grapple with the harsh realities you see there. 

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes is a grimy, violent, and disturbing apocalyptic novel that I couldn’t put down. You haven’t read a possession novel quite like this. 

I was horrified and I loved it so much. 

Space heist! Super quick read with lots of sexual tension and some exciting space adventures. 

Haunted phone booth! (I’ll write a real review when I’m not falling asleep). I liked this! Very creepy short story. 

I love a Rear Window trope and this one has actual ghosts! 

A young woman battling cancer gets the chance to enter the world of her favorite book series where, if she finds a specific magical flower, she will wake up in her world healed. Unfortunately when she wakes up in the book world, she is the villain set to be executed. This rollicking adventure twists and turns like all good fantasy novels, while knowing exactly what it is. It’s fun, funny, and also a brilliant fantasy. I am desperate for a sequel. 

Climate change, end of the world, a kid with a Tarare-like appetite, this book is bleak. 

Very cute romcom in which the main character finds herself in the fictional small town of her favorite romance series at the exact time in her life when she needs it the most. Enemies to friends to lovers.  Level 4/5 on the steam scale. 

A woman with severe, debilitating chronic pain goes on a lake house vacation with her husband where they’re tormented by *something* in the woods. Creature feature. Slow pace, lots of telling instead of showing.