A Well-Read Tart

A Food and Book Lover’s Blog

Podcast Book Club discussion of THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the horror novel The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden. Happily married couple Tommy and Kate take the adventure of a lifetime: they buy a fixer-upper villa for one Euro in the rural Italian countryside. What they don’t know about their new dream home is that it used to be the “the house of last...

Book Review of OLD COUNTRY

Old Country is one of the best horror stories I’ve read in a very long time. Tartlets, this supernatural horror novel by Matt Query and Harrison Query is AWESOME. There’s no other word for it. Old Country blew me away with its originality, insidiously creepy reveals, and excellent writing. I’ve read a lot of haunted house stories, but this tale about a young married couple living on haunted land stands out as a rare treat in the horror...

Book Review of THE DROWNING KIND

The Drowning Kind has made me SO happy that I didn't buy a house with a pond. Or, a lake. Hell, even a pool. Because I am legit now a little creeped out by all bodies of water and what may be lurking beneath the surface.  I've long been a Jennifer McMahon fan, ever since I read The Winter People. McMahon's written numerous novels since then, all of them perfectly entertaining, mysterious, and even a little scary... But I know what you're...

Book Review of HIDDEN PICTURES

Hello, Tartlets! I'm so excited to be part of the blog tour for Hidden Pictures. Because I seriously loved this book. (Whew! What a relief. It would've been totally awkward to be part of a blog tour for a book I hated.) Billed as "The Haunting of Hill House meets The Perfect Nanny," this supernatural thriller by Jason Rekulak surpassed all the expectations I had for it. I ripped through Hidden Pictures in just two days. TWO DAYS! Every spare...