Review: Dead Girls - Girls Just Wanna Get Even - Beck Kubrick - September 2026 I'll be honest, I picked this one up expecting a fun, gory romp through slasher tropes, and while I absolutely got that, I wasn't prepared for how much this graphic novel would sneak up on me emotionally. Dead Girls is exactly what it promises on the tin  a love letter to slasher films but it's the friendship at its center that really got under my skin. Clossdale is the kind of small town that horror fans will recognize instantly: pretty on the surface, rotten underneath, and apparently cursed with an alarming body count of teenage girls. When a fifth victim turns up, suspicion immediately falls on Ash, the daughter of a notorious serial killer. There's something so viscerally unfair about watching Ash carry the weight of her mother's crimes, and I found myself rooting for her from page one  not because she's a perfect heroine, but because she's angry, and she has every right to ...

Title: Sole Survivor Author: Candice Wright Genre: Dark Romance Tropes: Serial Killer/Stalker Vibes Release Date: March 28, 2024 BLURB There’s a murderer on the loose. One who kills without hesitation and remorse. When Rue Anderson, the killer’s tenth victim, is found in a shallow grave at a children’s park, it sends shockwaves through the local community and sparks a media frenzy. But there is a difference between Rue and the nine victims that came before her. Rue survived. Left with a scar on her soul and her memory in tatters, Rue finds herself drawn to Valen Ward, the dark and enigmatic man who reminds her there is more to life than just existing. But Rue’s future is as uncertain as her past. And though Valen holds her close, he might also be the reason Rue’s world was torn apart. Every secret has the power to break her, but nothing proves to be more fatal than the truth. Not when she’s the sole survivor. And he’s the prime suspect. GOODREADS BOOKBUB ...

Review: Good Girls Don't Die - Christina Henry - November 2023 This book captured my attention with the title and as I opened it, we are presented with three females who seem to be stuck in their movie or this case the final girl scenario. For our first one, Celia wakes up in a small cozy town with a life she doesn't remember and a family who in her mind can't exist. She also owns her restaurant. This doesn't seem like her life should but she takes it with a grain of salt as things aren't exactly lining up and it's about to take a weirder turn when she finds herself a murder suspect. This whole situation reminds Celia of the cozy mysteries she loves to read, can she put her bookish knowledge to the test and escape and survive this crazy world she has found herself in the middle of?  Story #2 is about Allie whose birthday weekend plans have changed at the last minute and instead of a relaxing girls' weekend on the beach, she is stuck in a cabin in the woo...

Review: I Heard You Scream - Emerald O'Brien - April 2022 This book is the perfect read for all those fans of the 90s/2000s slasher films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. As I read this, I was transported back to the slasher era of my teens, reading a book about a final girl - 5 years on her friends all being massacred, and she left as the final girl. It has been five years since Chelsea and her friends were attacked and only Chelsea survived and it's only because she was angry and stormed out and arrived after the attack happened but of course, nobody knows that truth - they all think she is a hero. Chelsea is also hiding another truth which she believes is what led to this tragedy. Two months before, she and her friends covered up a crime. Then two months later they were dead and the prime suspect Steve died by police fire. Now with the anniversary, it looks like someone knows about the cover-up and is blackmailing Chelsea to do the right thing. She is ready t...