A Well-Read Tart

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HOME IS WHERE THE BODIES ARE (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

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 Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose. Well, we knew it couldn’t last. As much as Kait and I agreed on our last book club read, we completely disagreed on Home Is Where the Bodies Are. Can you guess which one of us couldn’t put this thriller down and who wanted to throw it against the wall?   Kait and...

I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

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 slasher horror novel I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones. I admired so much about I Was A Teenage Slasher. The story concept is brilliant, the humor is sharp and witty, the book’s unique setting of a rural West Texas town is practically its own character, and I love how the author tied everything...

N0S4A2 Book Review

N0S4A2 is a Christmas book in the way that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. It's a horror novel that just so happens to be centered around Christmas. There are all the entrancing, alluring elements of the holidays that we love: carols, trees decorated with ornaments, and the smell of gingerbread in the air. But, author Joe Hill doles out each charming tidbit with a sinister twist that morphs the innocent into something incredibly dark and...