Crazy Spooky Love

Title: Crazy Spooky Love
Author: Josie Silver
Published: September 2, 2025 by Dell
Format: Kindle, Paperback 320 Pages
Genre: Paranormal
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Melody Bittersweet #1

Blurb: In the leafy, charming town of Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling black-and-white building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits.

On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the disused back storeroom into her office and opens her own business. Unlike the rest of her family, she’s not taking down messages from ghosts—she’s taking them out.

Soon, the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency takes on its first a grand old house that won’t sell because a trio of incumbent ghost brothers raise merry hell whenever prospective owners arrive to view it.

It soon becomes clear that there’s a whole heap of unfinished business between the Scarborough brothers—including murder—and Melody isn’t the only one trying to unravel the mystery. Leo Dark, her rakish ex and business rival, is also on the case, along with the TV crew that trails him.

To make matters worse, the sarcastic and skeptical (and annoyingly good-looking) local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well. Sniffing out a way to publicly discredit the Bittersweets is his favorite assignment—and has absolutely nothing to do with his inability to resist Melody.

With her business on the line, it’s up to Melody to work out the brothers' issues, but can she protect her own very susceptible heart from Fletcher’s charm? Does she even want to?

My Opinion: Josie Silver has long held a cozy spot on my romance shelf. Her stories usually deliver heart, nuance, and characters you want to root for. So, when I saw she was venturing into paranormal territory with Crazy Spooky Love, I was curious. A little rom-com shimmer with a ghostly twist? Count me in.

But from the first few pages, something felt off. The tone was disjointed, the setup unclear, and the protagonist, supposedly 27, read more like a teenager navigating high school drama. I kept going, partly out of loyalty and partly out of hope. After all, authors deserve space to stretch creatively, and I was willing to follow her into new terrain.

Unfortunately, the terrain never quite settled. The language bounced between retro slang and modern references, creating a time-warp effect that was more confusing than charming. The dialogue leaned heavily on teen-style banter, which felt jarring coming from adult characters. And while there were moments of light humor and character appeal, they were buried under layers of overwriting and fluff that begged to be skimmed.

By the halfway mark, I tapped out. The story hadn’t found its footing, and I couldn’t keep pretending it might. What’s worse, I already own the second book in the series, and now I’m stuck in reader limbo. Do I give it a shot and hope for a course correction? Or shelve it and preserve my fondness for Silver’s earlier work?

I genuinely don’t know what happened here. It’s so far removed from the Josie Silver I’ve come to admire that I found myself wondering if she even wrote it. Maybe this was a ghost story in more ways than one.

Murder on the Marlow Belle

Title: Murder on the Marlow Belle
Author: Robert Thorogood
Published: January 16, 2025, by HQ
Format: Kindle, 333 Pages
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: The Marlow Murder Club #4

Blurb: Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no one remembers seeing him disembark. And then Oliver’s body washes up on the Thames with two bullet holes in him – it’s time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action.

Oliver was, by all accounts, a rather complicated chap with a reputation for bullying children during nativity play rehearsals, and he wasn’t short of enemies. Judith, Suzie, and Becks are convinced they’ll find his killer in no time. But things are not as they seem in the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, and this case is not so clear-cut after all. The gang will need to keep their wits about them to solve this case, otherwise a killer will walk free.

My Opinion: If you’re jumping into The Marlow Murder Club, I’d recommend picking a lane: either the books or the TV series. I started with the novels, so the show’s tweaks feel like unnecessary detours. The heart of the story is still there, but the rhythm and tone shift just enough to be distracting if you’re toggling between formats.

This installment is light and easy to follow, even if you opt to change between the written page and the audiobook. It’s not trying to be profound, just a typical whodunnit with one body and a buffet of suspects. The pacing meanders a bit, with stretches that feel more like scenic detours than plot propulsion. But just when I was settling into the idea that this one might coast to a predictable finish, Thorogood pulled the rug out with a twist.

What keeps me coming back isn’t the mystery itself; it’s the Marlow Murder Club ladies. Their banter, their quirks, their refusal to stay in their lane. They’re the glue holding this series together, and their antics still make me smile.

And just when you think the story’s wrapped up, it throws in a final flourish that retroactively ties the chaos together. It doesn’t change the picture much, but it does make it feel more complete.

That said, a few days after finishing, I couldn’t tell you the finer points of the plot. It’s more about the ride than the destination. If you’re here for depth, this isn’t it. But if you’re here for charm, a dash of absurdity, and a trio of amateur sleuths who refuse to quit, you’ll find enough to enjoy.

The Lies They Told

Title: The Lies They Told
Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Published: July 29, 2025, by Kensington
Format: Kindle, Paperback, 417 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

Blurb: In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.

When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned.

Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing “inferior genes.”

After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughter—and protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love.

My Opinion: Ellen Marie Wiseman is a new-to-me author, but if The Lies They Told is any indication of her storytelling power, she’s earned a permanent spot on my “must-read” list.

What first drew me in was the subject of eugenics, a dark and often overlooked chapter in American history. But what kept me turning the pages was the way Wiseman wove that history into a deeply human story. The pacing was tight, the characters vivid and raw, and the emotional weight? Unrelenting. I found myself needing to read it in small doses, not because it lagged, but because it hurt.

The opening hit especially hard. My own grandparent came through Ellis Island, and I had no idea of the gauntlet some immigrants faced. Reading about the so-called medical inspections, where people were poked, prodded, and interrogated in a language they didn’t understand, felt eerily reminiscent of something far more sinister. It wasn’t just about health. It was about worth. About who was deemed “fit” to enter and who was cast aside. Families were torn apart by the stroke of a pen, and the idea that someone could be labeled a burden to society by a stranger with a clipboard made my stomach turn.

This book broke me. Again and again. I couldn’t look away, and I couldn’t pretend it was just fiction. Wiseman made me feel every injustice Lena and Silas endured. Every betrayal. Every moment of despair. And when they shattered, I shattered with them.

The pain didn’t end with the final chapter. The author’s note was its own kind of gut punch. In school, we’re taught that eugenics was a Nazi horror. What we’re not taught is that the Nazis took their cues from us. That silence, that omission, is part of the lie.

The Lies They Told isn’t just a novel. It’s a reckoning. And it will stay with me for a very long time.

The Tattered Cover

Title: The Tattered Cover
Author: Ellery Adams
Expected Publication: October 28, 2025, by Kensington Cozies
Format: Kindle 304pgs
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Secret, Book, & Scone Society #8

Blurb: As the residents of Miracle Springs, North Carolina, select their costumes, plan parties, and get excited for a night of tricks or treats, Nora joins in on the festivities by hosting medium memoirist Lara Luz at the bookstore. Charismatic and compelling, Lara mesmerizes the audience with her life story. Struck by a bolt of lightning as a child, she was pronounced dead only to be resurrected with the ability to connect with those on the other side.

Lara performs a reading for a select group of bookstore patrons when the encroaching storm knocks out the power. In the sudden darkness, howling cold winds intensify, and Lara clutches her heart, collapsing dead without warning. But Nora doesn’t believe she died of natural causes. Not one member of the psychic’s reading group—which includes the town’s widower pharmacist, an urgent care nurse, a mystery author, and even truculent Deputy Hollowell—were admirers of Lara.

Nora confirms this when she stumbles upon Lara’s journal in the aftermath of her death. For within its leathery bound pages are the medium and her clients’ deepest and darkest secrets, written in code. Now, Nora and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society must sift through the suspects and their motives to uncover which one of them is a killer before he or she is tempted to strike again

My Opinion: After a string of underwhelming reads, I reached for something comforting, familiar, and bookish that felt like fall. This novel delivered exactly that. Yes, it’s a little bookgirlie to say I needed a cozy mystery with coffee and pastries, but sometimes you need to lean into the season and let a well-worn series wrap around you like a favorite sweater.

I’ve been with this series from the beginning. The plot structure hasn’t changed much, and the characters feel like old friends who never surprise you, which is part of the charm. Nora remains the heart of Miracle Springs, and while Sheriff McCade might wear the badge, we all know who’s solving the case. The mystery itself gets a bit twisty, and there were moments I felt that I, too, had a concussion, but the plotting stays true to the amateur sleuth formula. You know what you signed up for, and you’re not mad about it.

There’s a quiet sweetness to these books. Friendship, found family, a touch of romance, and the kind of small-town rituals that make you want to linger. Each chapter opens with a quote, and some chapters even drop book titles like breadcrumbs for fellow readers to follow. It’s the literary equivalent of chatting with a bookseller who knows their genres and isn’t afraid to recommend across the aisle.

That said, the pacing lagged a bit. Covering three months felt excessive for a mystery that didn’t demand it. Was it meant to mirror seasonal change? To stretch out the investigation? Or give a pregnant mother time. I’m not sure, but I did find myself wishing for a tighter edit.

Still, this novel was a gentle reset; a palate cleanser between heavier reads. It reminded me why I keep showing up for this series: not for the plot twists, but for the comfort, the community, and the quiet joy of a story that knows exactly what it is.

Circle of Days

Title: Circle of Days
Author: Ken Follett
Published: September 23, 2025, by Grand Central Publishing
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 704 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

Blurb: A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.

A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.

A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare

My Opinion: I was looking forward to this book. The idea of a story rooted in the mystery of Stonehenge had me intrigued. It’s the kind of concept that sparks curiosity and promises something epic. And knowing it came from Ken Follett, I expected to be swept away.

But somewhere around page 130, I realized I wasn’t turning the pages with any urgency. The characters weren’t the problem; they were fine, even likable. What I needed was momentum. A sense of discovery. Something to make me lean in. Instead, the story felt stuck.

It’s disappointing, especially when the premise holds so much potential. I kept waiting for the Stonehenge thread to anchor the narrative in something mythic or mysterious. But that promise never quite materialized; at least not before I set the book down.

This wasn’t a rage-quit. More of a quiet fade. I gave it a fair shot, but in the end, it just didn’t grab me. And with Follett, I know he can deliver better.

The Book of Lost Hours

Title: The Book of Lost Hours
Author: Hayley Gelfuso
Published: August 26, 2025, by Atria Books
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 400 Pages
Genre: Historical Time Travel
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

Blurb: Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.

In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past—and the truth—might not be as linear as she’d like to believe.

The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.

My Opinion: I finished the novel days ago and it’s still echoing in my head. I’ve been circling around how to describe the experience, since it wasn’t just enjoyable, it was immersive, unsettling, and quietly brilliant.

Hayley Gelfuso pulled off something rare: she took two genres I don’t usually reach for, historical fiction and time travel, and wove them together in a way that felt fresh, emotionally resonant, and surprisingly intimate. The story doesn’t just span eras; it plays with identity, memory, and the slipperiness of truth. You know from the start that the characters’ paths will cross, but the when and how are part of the magic. There’s a slow-burn tension as you begin to sense that each person is more than they appear, and that their fates are deeply entangled.

Yes, some of the twists are easy to spot. But that doesn’t cheapen the experience. Gelfuso knows exactly when to drop a gasp-worthy moment or a quiet revelation that makes you sit up straighter. It’s not about shock, it’s about emotional timing. And she nails it.

This isn’t a book to nibble at. Read it in generous stretches. The shifting timelines and layered character arcs demand your full attention, and the payoff is worth it. You’ll find yourself questioning who’s “good” and who’s “evil,” and just when you think you’ve picked a side, the story nudges you to reconsider.

And the ending? It’s one of those rare finales that makes you flip back a few pages, just to make sure you caught it right. Miss a single phrase, and you might miss everything. It’s the kind of ending that begs for conversation; one you’ll want to dissect with someone else.

Honestly, I wish I could read it again for the first time. That’s the highest compliment I can give.

The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

Title: The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
Author: Liza Tully
Published: July 8, 2025 by Berkley
Format: Kindle, Hardcover 400 Pages
Genre: Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Merritt & Blunt Mysteries (#1)

Blurb: Olivia Blunt doesn't want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She's determined to learn everything she can from her mentor and renowned investigator, Aubrey Merritt, but the latter is no easy grader.

After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties desperate for the world-renowned detective’s help, a case comes across Olivia’s desk that just might be worthy of Merritt’s skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman—rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter Haley thinks it was murder.

Merritt is ever the skeptic, but Olivia believes Haley. Plus, she’s desperate to prove her investigative skills to her aloof boss. But the Summersworth family drama is a complicated web.

Olivia realizes she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing... or she might be unravelling a mystery even bigger than the one she’d started with.

My Opinion: I made it to 17%—about 70 pages—and then tapped out. Not because I’m impatient, but because I kept waiting for something, anything, to spark. A moment of intrigue. A character worth rooting for. A reason to turn the page. But nope. Nothing.

The setup had promise: Olivia Blunt, a lifelong detective fangirl, lands a gig as assistant to the legendary Aubrey Merritt. That should’ve been a recipe for quirky banter, clever cases, and at least one compelling dynamic. Instead, it’s a slow drip of dull dialogue and lifeless scenes. The pacing is sluggish, the tone flat, and the characters? Cardboard cutouts with no emotional pull.

It’s not just that the story moves slowly; it’s that it asks the reader to care without offering anything in return. No tension, no charm, no spark. I wanted to like it. But Liza Tully took a solid concept and buried it under a mountain of missed opportunities.

If you're hoping for a witty mystery with engaging leads, keep walking. This one’s all hype, no payoff.

The Thursday Murder Club

Title: The Thursday Murder Club
Author: Richard Osman
Published: September 22, 2020, by Penguin Books
Format: Paperback, 382 Pages
Genre: Mystery
Series: Thursday Murder Club #1

Blurb: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

My Opinion: After watching the Netflix adaptation, I figured, why not try the book? I was curious to see if the charm held up on the page. And for the most part, it did, at least in the beginning.

The setup is fun: a group of retirees solving cold cases between tea and cake. Osman’s humor is enjoyable, and the characters are quirky in that British-cozy way that makes you want to pull up a chair and join them. I was enjoying myself, chuckling here and there, nodding along.

But somewhere around the three-quarter mark, things started to drag. The plot and pacing slowed, and I found myself zoning out. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand what was happening; I just stopped caring. The charm wore off, and finishing the book felt more like a chore than a treat.

I did finish it, though. And afterward, I had that “meh” feeling. Not angry, not disappointed, just kind of wishing I’d spent that time on something else. I know this series has its fans, and I get the appeal. But for me? One and done. I won’t be picking up book two.

If you love cozy mysteries with a side of sass and don’t mind a slower pace, this might be your jam. But if you’re looking for something that keeps the momentum all the way through, maybe look elsewhere.

A Short Stay in Hell

Title: A Short Stay in Hell
Author: Steven L. Peck
Published: March 23, 2012, by Strange Violin Editions
Format: Kindle, 108 Pages
Genre: Fiction

Blurb: As a faithful Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.

In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

My Opinion: I’m not sure what I was expecting when I picked up this novella, but I know it wasn’t this. Steven L. Peck delivers a compact, cerebral gut-punch in just 108 pages, and yet it lingers like something much heavier.

The premise is deceptively simple and deeply unsettling. You live your life as a devout Mormon, die of cancer at 45, and wake up in hell. Not because you were cruel or careless, but because Zoroastrianism turned out to be the one true faith. And now, as penance, you must wander an infinite library until you find the one book that tells the story of your life. Only then can you leave.

It’s a brilliant setup, and the deeper I got into it, the more I wished I were reading it with a book group. There’s so much to unpack: faith, futility, identity, memory, and the terrifying possibility that meaning itself might be a cosmic joke. Hell, in this story, isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s repetition. It’s isolation. It’s the slow erosion of hope in a place where time stretches beyond comprehension.

Peck doesn’t offer a tidy resolution. If you’re looking for a happily ever after, this isn’t it. What you get instead is an existential crisis wrapped in sparse, elegant prose. It’s the kind of book that makes you sit quietly afterward, wondering what you believe and why; and whether belief even matters in the face of infinity.

This novel is uniquely haunting and you will be thinking about it for a long time.

The Library at Hellebore

Title: The Library at Hellebore
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Published: July 22, 2025, by Tor Nightfire
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 278 Pages
Genre: Horror
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

Blurb: The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.

Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.

But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.

Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?

My Opinion: I’m glad I didn’t let the negative reviews steer me away from this novel. I devoured it in two days, and if sleep weren’t a necessity, I’d have read straight through the night. It’s that gripping.

Now, let’s talk about the prose. Yes, it’s dense. Some readers called it “word salad,” and they’re not entirely wrong, but they’re missing the point. This isn’t the kind of dark academia that feels like slogging through a thesaurus for sport. It’s more like being dropped into a gothic fever dream where the language itself is part of the atmosphere. You either lean into the lush, labyrinthine sentences or let them wash over you and trust that the emotional and thematic current will carry you where you need to go. And it does.

The story is a mash-up of dark academia and cosmic horror. The opening chapters feel like a vocabulary test wrapped in dread, but it fits. Cosmic horror isn’t about jump scares or gore for gore’s sake; it’s about the creeping realization that we are small, fragile things in a universe that doesn’t care if we understand it. Khaw nails that existential unease. The horror here is psychological, philosophical, and deeply unsettling. It’s the kind of book that makes you question what’s real, what’s knowable, and whether knowing is even safe.

Plot-wise, it’s a non-linear descent. Told in fragments, before and during the final days at Hellebore. You’ll find yourself flipping back, second-guessing what you thought you knew, and wondering who exactly is speaking. I got so caught up in the plot that I missed some of the character nuance on the first pass. Alessa Li stood out, but the rest? I’ll need a second read to untangle their threads. It reminded me of watching The Sixth Sense with that eerie feeling that something’s been hiding in plain sight all along.

And yes, it’s horror. Real horror. Not the kind that makes you say “well, that was interesting” and move on. This one’s gruesome, gory, and weirdly funny in places. It’s quotable, thought-provoking, and not something I’d recommend reading alone at night unless you enjoy being unsettled.

Cassandra Khaw is new to me, and wow, she did not hold back. I’d never even heard of cosmic horror before this, and now I’m wondering what other literary spaces I’ve been avoiding. Will I read more of her work? Eventually. But first, I need to recover from this one.