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THE HIDEAWAY Book Review

Posted on June 19, 2018June 25, 2024 by CJ | A Well-Read Tart

I love me a good "renovate your house, renovate your life" story. After reading a particularly terrifying but excellent novel, I decided I needed something a bit lighter as my next read. Cue The Hideaway, by Lauren K. Denton. This was an impulse grab at the library. I generally stop by my town library once or twice a week to pick up books that have come in for me (love the InterLibraryLoan system...or whatever it's called these days!), and I...

THE BIRD EATER Book Review

Posted on June 12, 2018June 25, 2024 by CJ | A Well-Read Tart

I love supernatural thrillers. I cannot get enough of them, either in book, TV show, or movie form. My obsession with all things ghostly started when I was about six, and while, yes, it deeply troubled my mother, she wasn’t able to stop me in my quest for consuming everything I could about the paranormal. I’m thankful to now be living in an age when “ghost stuff” is considered mainstream, even cool. I distinctly remember combing through...