Well this was definitely a marked improvement from The Girl Who Cried Monster. Here we have the tale of Billy. Billy is on his way to his first summer camp, Camp Nightmoon. Y’know, yay camp… Never went to summer camp myself, England didn’t really have them. SO they always seem like such an awesome novelty […]
*Deep Breath* Where to even bloody begin. *Rubs eyes tiredly and sighs* This is by and far the WORST attempt at a monster book I have ever read. And I read a lot of monster books. Horror is my thing, it’s what I do. If you don’t believe me check out the Redshirts Blog next […]
Where to begin with Skulduggery Pleasant. It’s an Urban Fantasy about a private investigator with magical powers. Sound familiar? It should because that’s the Dresden Files too. But unlike the decidedly adult tone of Jim Butchers master-works of Urban Fantasy, Derek Landy offers us something just as good, but a little more Artemis Fowl. Set […]
I put off reading this book for more than a week. Not because I needed a break from the series, I didn’t. But because I was scared. Memories of this book flooded back to me, memories of staying up at night and reading under my covers with my pocket torch. Memories of the dummies, Mr. […]
I don’t know how I felt reading this. No, really I don’t. A mirror that turns you invisible is a good concept, but I don’t get why your reflection running around instead of you is a bad thing. I know that in the book they were the characters dark alter ego’s and that’s fine I […]
Well hello once again… *The lights burn brightly over Archer’s head as he looks around, the sandy heat sapping all the energy he has. Taneika is bouncing around excited to be at a pyramid, Nemo too is happy to be here.* The heat is killing me but the backdrop of pyramids seems appropriate… I’ve just […]
Finally. Finally we are getting somewhere. After 2 books that were decidedly meh I finally got a book that moved at a decent pace and was interesting to boot! Here is a story that plays with the old superstition that you shouldn’t have a photo taken because the camera will steal your soul. This is […]
Well, that was a slow read. It may have only been 128 pages but it took me about a week of stopping and starting to read it. And it’s not that there was anything particularly wrong with the writing, that’s the one thing that sets Stine’s Goosebumps works apart from his adult endeavours, Goosebumps is […]
The nostalgia fest continues… And sadly this one was a chore to read. Stay out of the Basement is the the second of the originally published series and it’s honestly, really rather weak. Early 90’s suburban California, could you pick a better setting for a tale of terror? Suburbia remains one of the single most […]
What in the… Where in the… This doesn’t look like my workstation… I remember Nemo and Taneika… we were hanging out chatting about nostalgia… they offered me chocolate and a unicorn, I mean who in the hell wouldn’t say yes to a unicorn?.. and then everything is a happy blur of Nightwish and books and […]
