ryinwonderland's Reviews (892)

Phew, this book is chock full o’ God and Jesus. It’s cute, it’s got some sweet advice, a couple of fun anecdotes, and a whole lotta faith. It wasn’t for me, but it’s definitely for some! 

When you pick up an Iain Reid book, you know you’re in for a deeply disturbing, confusing, unsettling ride. He has a way of making you feel like you’ve got your footing and then pulling the rug out from under you so you’re falling and scrabbling but there are no handholds or footholds. 
This book messes with time and memory and aging and paranoia and is both a depressing look at the way society views it’s elders and also an unstable horror novel about sinister people taking advantage of the most vulnerable population. 
Just like “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”, “We Spread” will stick with me for a long time. 

You, you, you…
This book made me feel so many things! It’s got spice, yes, but it also has the butterflies of falling in love, the heartbreak of love ending, the grief of losing family, the raw ache of friends growing apart, the hopefulness that everything can work out.

This is a romance, and it has it’s happily ever after, and damn does Emily Henry make you earn that HEA. There were times when I was wracked with sobs reading this book, and by the next page my tears were dried by the heat of my skin as I read a spicy scene. 

This book is a beautiful roller coaster of emotions. It’s a novel of love, every kind of love. Romantic love, familial love, the love of found family and best friends, love lost and love rekindled, the ache that love can cause, and the warmth that love can provide. 

I loved this book. 

Love me some Sporror (Spore-Horror)!
What happens when a group of grieving addicts get their hands on a drug that pierced the veil and let’s you see ghosts? Nothing good, I’ll tell you that much. 

Don’t think about Daphne…
This book is incredible and so chilling. I felt like I was watching a slasher movie while reading it, it’s so cinematic. I found myself spiraling into the same anxieties of the characters. I couldn’t put it down. What a slam dunk. 

This book is lovely. Spanning multiple generations of an Italian family through the war, the women of the Cabrelli family experience love and loss and growth and find that they’re not so different from one another after all. The threads of the stories, remembered by Matelda as she relates them to her granddaughter in her final days of life, are braided together in a beautiful and touching family history. This book is best read on a stormy day with a cup of tea and a warm blanket with plenty of delicious snacks at hand. 

Frankie Elkin is a drifter. She’s also really good at finding missing people. She travels from town to town solving cold cases. She’s not an ex cop, she was never in the military, she’s just really good at research and asking the right questions and listening. She arrives in Wyoming ready to join a hiking party to search for the body of Tim O’Day, missing for five years. What follows is three days of terrifying wilderness, long-kept secrets, and everything that could possibly go wrong going wrong. Also possibly the group is being hunted. This book is an edge of your seat thriller set deep in the dangerous mountains of Wyoming with a group of people (and a dog) you will absolutely fall in love with. (The dog doesn’t die). 

A murder investigation uncovers a hidden practice of Female Genital Mutilation, forced marriage, and other abuses among the Nigerian and Somali communities in London.