Horror October: YA Horror Books (are lacking)

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 12, 2016 | 3 Comments

As I was looking for books I wanted to read for Horror October, I realized something: There’s not very many YA horror books. I’m not talking “horror” stories that are about cute ghosts or are all romancey and shit. I’m talking REAL. HORROR. Gory, homicidal, disturbing, you’re-going-to-die, HORROR. There are only two books I’ve ever read that were labeled as horror that I actually consider to be real horror: The Monstrumologist and Lockdown. Both were totally dark and twisted, and […]

Review: Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 11, 2016 | 0 Comments

There was only Furnace. It was our world, our grave, our hell. I don’t know if it was a mood issue for me or what, but this book didn’t quite live up to the first one. For some reason it didn’t have the magic, it wasn’t as intense, and it wasn’t as scary. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a creepy setting with disturbing things happening, but it didn’t have me all: like the first one did. And for some reason the […]

Horror October: Week 1 Recap

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 10, 2016 | 0 Comments

Sign up HERE! Okay, so I had a little recap in yesterday’s Heartbeat Weekly, but after thinking about it I decided I’d really like to do a separate post for these. Also, I want to add a linky to give everyone a chance to link their Horror October related posts! Week 1 recap What I read Sadly the only book I finished was Solitary. I’m about 40 pages into The Hallowed Ones right now, though, and it’s really good so […]

Heartbeat Weekly (92): YA Signing Recap

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 9, 2016 | 11 Comments

Books I got this week From the signing: All of these are signed! Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake Antigoddess by Kendare Blake Replica by Lauren Oliver Requiem by Lauren Oliver Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson (reserved from the week before) “My Replica made me do it” t-shirt (won) Signed swag Bought: HBP magnets: Loki, […]

Horror October: The Show That is Slowly Growing on Me

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 8, 2016 | 4 Comments

I am a very reluctant watcher of this show. I tried it for the first time right after finishing Dexter (TO WHICH NOTHING COULD EVER COMPARE), and I didn’t like it at all. [side note, totally unrelated: I also tried the other show that Michael C. Hall plays in right around this same time – Six Feet Under – AND I JUST COULDN’T DO IT MAN. He is and always will be Dexter and to see him as anything else now […]

Review: Through the Dark by Alexandra Bracken

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on October 7, 2016 | 0 Comments

One day, we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night. In Time At first, I didn’t really care about the story. I tend to see novellas as a waste of time, nothing but filler. But as soon as Zu made an appearance, I was interested. And I found myself becoming more and more invested in the story. And […]