Horrid

By Katrina Leno

Hardback

322 pages

YA Fiction 

Owlcrate 

I read this book in just about 4 hours. 

Told in third person, it's the story of a teen and her mom moving to a spooky old house after the dad/husband dies. 

The prose in engaging, and it's set up kind of like a mystery novel in format - and mystery novels are featured in the story as well. 

And there are ghosts. 

Author letter.

Reverse of author letter with signature page.

Cool art on the inside of the dust jacket - I think this is an Owlcrate exclusive thing. 

First page. 

This was a really engaging book with a super dark ending. And it's a stand-alone! Not the start if a series or trilogy or duology. I really liked it. 

Silence Fallen

Fire Touched

Summer read #15 My Plain Jane

By Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Hardback
447 pages
Owlcrate exclusive

A humorous, funny, paranormal take on Jane Eyre.
The protagonist, Jane, who sees ghosts, leaves the terrible orphanage to become governess for Mr. Rochester's little girl. Her best friend, a ghost, goes with her. Her other best friend, Charlotte Bronte, follows soon after.
Jane Eyre's experiences fuel Bronte's writing.
Also, there is some romance. And a bunch of fun allusions. And ghosts.
It was amusing, and a good read.

It switches point of view for different chapters, which is sometimes really annoying to me, but I didn't find troublesome or distracting here.

I'm looking forward to the author event this evening! Finished reading just in time!

Asylum

By Madeleine Roux
310 pages
Paperback

So I've looked at this book for a while now, but I've always felt like it would be just a weird rip off of the Miss Peregrine books.
It's not really.
I mean, part of the premise is the same in that it is a narrative arranged around weird images.
The pictures for this book- all presented in black and white - are a mix of vintage and staged images.
The protagonist, Daniel Crawford, is staying at a summer camp and the dorms are located in a former asylum. He and his friends find some old records and photographs; quickly thereafter a body is found and their summer program becomes dangerous.
It was a better book than I thought it would be - and creepier too!