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Book Review | Good Girls Don’t Die

Celia wakes up in a house that’s supposed to be hers. There’s a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family—and this life—is not hers… Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip—but then her friend’s boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about this trip is very, very wrong… Maggie just wants to be home with her daughter, but she’s in a dangerous situation and she doesn’t know who put her there or why. She’ll have to fight with everything she has to survive… Christina Henry’s  Good Girls Don’t Die  introduces a clever and ambitious premise with three different women facing three different movie-like scenarios, but its execution unfortunately falls flat. This book had so much potential for creating a meta-commentary on the horror and dystopian genres, but instead it leans heavily on movies references (i.e.  The St...

Book Review | Near the Bone

Together with her husband, Mattie lives in a log cabin in the desolate wilderness. Game has been sparse this winter and bears should be hibernating away in their dens, so Mattie is surprised when she stumbles across large pawprints in the snow. Worst yet, animal carcasses are being mutilated and arranged in ways no normal predator could manage.  Now Mattie must survive a monster with far more cunning than seems natural as well as survive the monster within her own home.  Heart-pounding and bone-chilling, Near the Bone by Christina Henry is an atmospheric survival thriller filled with an ever-present feeling of isolation and dread. Each page soaks with tension since the horror stems twofold: the wild and her own home.   First, the story effectively explores the domestic horror of Mattie dealing with a constantly abusive and hyper-controlling husband who won’t even let her listen to music or read any other book besides the bible because he believes it is a sin.  ...