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4/5  Trigger Warnings: Mentions of Sexual Assault, grooming, murder, guilt, descriptions of gore  Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fairytale Retelling Published: May 2022 Another spoiler-free review. For a debut novel, Maria Adelmann has done an incredible job.  How to Be Eaten takes the lives of five woman who have lived through modern adaptations of fairytales. These fairytales get a new face with a modern twist.  Some things that people should keep in mind if they wish to read this novel, is that the chapters are pretty long. Each woman has her own chapter about her trauma. A tasteful writing technique was using multiple point of views throughout this book. It isn't the easiest thing to do, but Adelmann was able to execute this beautifully. Each chapter is in third person, however when the character is explaining her trauma, she speaks in first-person. Adelmann speaks well with using fairytales to have a deeper message. One that resonates with many---in terms of re

Rating: 4/5  Trigger Warnings: Mentions of rape, child pregnancy, mentions of suicide,  Genre: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary literature, Adult literature, Mystery, Translated Literature (French) "There are attachments so strong that they survive in our memories as if they were physically imprinted in each cell of our bodies..." (Bonidan 174). Inspired by a true story, The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan is a poetic journey of reading letters between many individuals who all have the same common goal: Read and wonder, who wrote this manuscript.  I felt as if I was reading the secret letters between a mystery of infatuation. They prove that average life can be just as exciting as an action film, just given the circumstances. The Lost Manuscript gives readers these intimate letters to read about the journey this manuscript took. Bonidan did an incredible job writing as well as Emma Ramadan did with the translation.  If you love books that have a poetic message and quotes imbe

4.5/5  Trigger Warnings: what you would expect in a slasher horror movie. Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery This review will be a rare spoiler-free one.  I had the privilege of doing a book challenge with my best friend with this book. The challenge is: Each person reads and annotates a book they desire, exchange them to read and annotate, and eventually exchange them back.  The Final Girl Support Group has been on my tbr (to be read) shelf for so long, and this challenge was the perfect excuse to break my book buying ban. This is my first book I've read from Grady Hendrix, and I can honestly say he is a true prince of horror and thriller (besides Stephen King being the literal King).  Hendrix creates a sense of uneasiness and suspense as you read this first person novel. I was a bit skeptical about reading a female first person novel written by a man, however, Hendrix executed this in such a beautiful way. Lynette's experiences and life is not overlooked as she liv