ryinwonderland's Reviews (892)

Oh, Haymitch. 🖤💔

This book is stressful! And gross! And weird!
I liked it!
There’s something in the water at L’Arpin Hotel. Sadie has fled her abusive ex with her young daughter, and has started working as a housekeeper, living at the hotel. But she can’t shake the feeling that people are hiding things from her and something strange and dangerous is going on. Things get weirder and weirder over time, and Sadie begins to wonder if she’ll ever escape this place, if anyone will ever believe that she keeps seeing tentacled monsters. 🦑 

A fascinating history of tuberculosis framed, in part, around the life of Henry, a young man with TB in Sierra Leone. John Green uses his immense talent as a storyteller to create a captivating narrative around this infectious disease that could be eradicated if only the cure was affordable and available in the countries that need it the most. 

Buckle up, folks, Lucky Day is a wild ride.

Chuck Tingle is one of my favorite voices in Horror. His stories are wildly unique, this one taking the cake for the most delightfully unhinged Chapter Two I’ve ever read in a book. 

Vera is a bisexual statistics professor who thrives on order and patterns. So, when May 23rd happens, a day that bucks all order and patterns and results in unimaginable carnage and chaos, Vera’s life is flipped completely upside down. Four years later, she questions her own existence and sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss of depression. Then a mysterious government agent with golden retriever energy bursts into her home and drags her along on a thrilling investigative journey involving a strange casino, a string of the most unlikely events, and the delicate balance of luck. What happens in Vegas, right?

This book was impossible to put down. A raucous, chaotic, masterpiece of a novel filled with horrors you simply cannot unread. I loved it to bits, and I am so grateful for the butterfly who flapped its wings to get us to the reality in which Chuck Tingle wrote Lucky Day.  

I’m calling all of this spoilers because it’s just key words and phrases to help me remember this one until I write my real review

Dual pov, mother/daughter, now/then. 
Generational trauma, strained relationships, gross men, dogs/wolves, Jazzland. Poor Caroline. What a life. Fucked up art that I’m obsessed with. Lila, just trying to live her life. 
The Cur was actual a bunch of dog/human hybrids who kill girls to sustain themselves. They start by getting in their heads and making them obedient and then they um on them to their deaths. Caroline escaped and then they target her daughter. She sacrifices herself in a way she couldn’t do when it was Beth. It was atonement, as well as a mother’s love. Her whole adult life leading up to that. Also FUCK her ex. What a douche. Glad he gets better once Lila is grown. Caroline’s doctor was one of the dog people. Fucked up.

Calla would do anything, give anything, to keep her brothers safe. She’s more their mom than their sister at this point, and she would sacrifice herself a thousand times over to save them. 
A recurring nightmare tells her when they’re in danger, and things are beginning to spiral out of control. 
This is a story of love and protection and sacrifice and nightmares and hope. 

This book kept me on my toes. It was not the werewolf book I was expecting. This is a book of parents and children and nightmares and bad miracles and heartbreak and grief and abuse and joy and wonder and fear and fear and fear. 

Nat Cassidy’s writing is propulsive and explosive and jaw-dropping. When the Wolf Comes Home is stunning. It’s wild. It’s terrifying. It's tender. It left me aching. I was completely undone. 

This book is non-stop from the first page. It healed something inside of me that I didn't know was broken, while also sending waves of dread and anxiety through my body. 

I want to read it all over again. 

Some excellent body horror and trans/nb rep  in this strange, watery YA Horror novel. Similar vibes to Our Wives Under the Sea, but with extra teen angst and body horror. 

This book is a song. The magic is grammar. The bond between sisters is the strongest of all. Utterly gorgeous. What a pleasure to read. 

Vaaaaaaaampiiiiiiiiire 😘😘😘