Lock Every Door 🗝️ Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

Jules is between jobs, between boyfriends, with a nearly empty bank account. Which is when she gets an offer she can scarcely refuse - an offer that almost sounds too good to be true: baby-sitting an apartment at prestigious (and fictional) New York apartment building "The Bartholomew."

Unfortunately, things begin to fall apart almost immediately, with mysterious sounds in the night, disappearing tenants, and messages too strange to ignore. But will Jules be able to make it out in one piece?

Serenity ⁉ Film Review

 

Written by Thelonia

Serenity is one of the wildest, most bafflingly earnest movies I’ve ever seen, something which is whole heartedly helped by the fact that I had literally no idea this movie existed until about four days ago, when I heard a couple of critics talk about how fucking weird it is. And, my friends, I can now indeed confirm, it’s weird as hell.

An Anonymous Girl 🙅 Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

A woman, a doctor, and her husband all come together in a tangled mess of a situation in Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkenan's new domestic thriller, An Anonymous Girl. The set up is intruiging, with contested loyalties, and family secrets, and messy relationships, but ultimately, the payoff just isn't there. For a thriller, a genre whose premise sort of relies on suspense, An Anonymous Girl really shows its cards very early on, and there aren't any new developments that would justify continuing to read past about the two thirds mark.

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle ⁉️ Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

Aiden wakes up in the woods. He doesn't know where he is, who he is, or who it was he just saw being chased across the lawn. All he knows is he has to help someone. Someone called Anna.

Our House 🖕 Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

Fiona Lawson is returning home from a short vacation, and notices someone is moving into a house on her street. Or, is that her house? No, she'd know if someone had sold the house...wouldn't she?

Baby Teeth 👼 Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

Hanna hates her Mommy and loves her Daddy. Suzette just wants her daughter to be normal. Alex thinks his wife is over-exaggerating. After all, his 'squirrely girl' would never do the things Suzette says she does...or would she?

The Banker's Wife 👥 Book Review

  

Written by Thelonia

Plane crashes and twisting French roads collide in this financial thriller that pits two women against a Swiss Bank due to circumstances outside of their control. A page-turner through and through, check out The Banker's Wife if you want a quick fun read for the summer!

All of This Is True 🙊 Book Review

Written by Thelonia

A mix of Misery and Pretty Little Liars, All of This Is True, Lygia Day Peñaflor's new novel is about a group of teens who befriend their favorite author. But when the author's new book, based on the teens, reveals too much and puts them in danger, everything changes. Told in a compilation of interviews, book excerpts, emails, and articles, All of This Is True is a page-turner where no one is to be trusted and no one is blameless.

Sometimes I Lie 🙊 Book Review

Written by Thelonia

There are three things you should know: 
1. I'm in a coma.
2. My husband doesn't love me any more.
3. Sometimes I lie.

Final Girls 🔪 Book Review

Written by Thelonia

Quincy Carpenter is the only survivor of a mass murder in a cabin in the woods, trying to live a life that is as close to normal as possible, distancing herself from the events that had her labelled "Final Girl" by running her baking blog and living a quiet life in NYC. But after hearing that another "Final Girl," Lisa, who survived a sorority house massacre, has killed herself, and having another, Sam, turn up on her doorstep, Quincy may need to return to her memories of what happened all those years ago at Pine Cottage in order to find out the truth of that night...and who would want to kill off the Final Girls after all these years.

Horror Movies to Watch this Halloween 2.0 ✌

      

Written by Thelonia

It's Halloween month, which mean it's now, once again, socially acceptable to watch as many horror movies as your mind can take. We're continuing from last year's Halloween horror movie compilation list to give you recommendations on what to watch to get spoopy this October season (or, if you're like me, all year round).

Emma in the Night 😥 Book Review

 

Written by Thelonia

Three years ago, teenage sisters Emma and Cass went missing. Now, Cass has returned to her childhood home – and the story she’s telling about where she and Emma have been is one filled with intrigue and salacious details – but how much of it is true?

The Beguiled 💘 Film Review

Written by Thelonia

The Beguiled began life as a novel (originally titled A Painted Devil by Thomas Cullinan), was adapted into a film in 1971 (starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page), and has now been brought back to the cinema by Sofia Coppola, who works the film into aesthetic beauty with a tense narrative, but who also falls prey to many of her cultural blind spots.