Book Review: The Monsters of Rookhaven by Pádraig Kenny

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Title: The Monsters of Rookahaven
Author: Pádraig Kenny
Released: September 21st, 2021 (Hardcover)
Series: The Monsters of Rookhaven
Trigger Warnings: Animal death, blood, bones, child abuse, childbirth, death, physical abuse, spiders, war
Rating: ★★★★☆

Description: ‘Humans, as is there wont, have a terrible habit of making a mess of everything.’

Mirabelle has always known she is a monster. When the glamour protecting her unusual family from the human world is torn and an orphaned brother and sister stumble upon Rookhaven, Mirabelle soon discovers that friendship can be found in the outside world.

But as something far more sinister comes to threaten them all, it quickly becomes clear that the true monsters aren’t necessarily the ones you can see.

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Book Review: As The Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings! by Iota AIUE

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Title: As the Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings!
Author: Iota AIUE, Kuroyuki (illustrator), Molly Lee (translator)
Released: February 12, 2021 (Kindle)
Series: N/A
Rating: ★★★★★

Description: Iris has awoken as the villainess in the world of her favorite otome game. But not just ANY otome game — one with nothing but bittersweet “Happy-Bad” Endings! If the heroine hooks up with one of her problematic love interests, the rest of the world is doomed… but if she fails, it’s the villainess who will pay with her life.

Fortunately, Iris has time on her side. All she has to do is set things up so that the heroine won’t go down those routes! Be it curing a fatal disease or re-parenting her possessive twin brother, she’ll do whatever it takes to reject these Happy-Bad Endings!

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Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Released: June 01st, 1890 (Paperback)
Trigger Warnings: Ableism, animal death (hunting scene), antisemitism, blood, death, drugs, fatphobia, misogyny, murder, racism, sexism, suicide
Rating: ★★★★★
Why Haven’t I Read This Before: I hadn’t heard of this until I was a younger adult, truthfully, but it was mostly in passing. I’ve heard of Oscar Wilde but now that I could, I wanted to check this out!

Description: Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray“. Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks of me: Dorian what I would like to be — in other ages, perhaps”.

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Book Review: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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Title: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Released: August 31, 2021 (Hardcover)
Series: The Lake Witch Trilogy
Trigger Warnings: Graphic violence, discussion of sexual assault, predatory behavior, suicide, mental health, domestic abuse, substance abuse, violence against animals
Rating: ★★★★★

Description: In her quickly gentrifying rural lake down, Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for.

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies… especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

Yet, even as Jade drags us back into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges… a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body.

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