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Dear Midnight by Zack Grey - Book Review

Grey combines aesthetic with a tragic love story in Dear Midnight—all told through progressive poems. The aesthetic of day to night parallels to the ups and downs of a relationship. From initial pupp...

Five feet apart by Rachel Lippincott - Book Review

Stella Grant has been in and out of hospitals her entire life, due to cystic fibrosis, a rare disease affecting her lungs and digestive tract, but she likes to stay in control by making lists and post...

Gerald's Game by Stephen King - Book Review

It was fun in the beginning. The handcuffs, the isolation, the vulnerability. But sometimes things can get out of hand and this time, Jessie wasn’t playing along. If only Gerald had heeded her pleas;...

Sugar Skin by Nicholas Wilson - Book Review

Sugar Skin is the debut novel of Mr. Wilson, and it is a powerhouse. Hard to describe exactly what genre this book falls under, but it follows the story of protagonist Tank. He’s a young backpacker ex...

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan - Book Review

“The Eye of the World” opens like any other high fantasy epic. We have Rand, the farm boy, who hails from a small rural community in the Twin Rivers; far away from the magic and mayhem of the kingdom’...

The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King - Book Review

Back in the “Dark Tower” universe, “Wind Through the Keyhole” was the last of the books to be released. It is a side-story, a one-off, Stephen King wanted to tell that has little to do with the actual...

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan - Book Review

This is the third book of the fourteen part series, and arguably the climax of the last three books. It picks up after the events of “The Great Hunt”, with Rand al’ Thor as the proclaimed Dragon Rebor...

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker - Book Review

The theme here is duality. We start off with a bored mailman working in the mail sorting room in Nebraska. This man’s name is Jaffe. By sorting through the dead letters of America, he stumbles upon so...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Book Review

America’s been wasted by (what?) and a father and son, both nameless, travel across the desolated country to find the California coast and hopefully safety. They have to walk through snow and woods;...

By Zora Flatley

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Salem’s Lot by Stephen King - Book Review

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Salem’s Lot by Stephen King - Book Review

This quiet and peaceful country town is about to witness the birth of a terrifying evil, one that might consume it entirely. Jerusalem’s Lot, known as Salem’s Lot by the locals, is a town Ben Mears re...

By Zora Flatley

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