My darkest dearest7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When I read Native Son as a senior in high school, I had to leave it on the sofa overnight because I couldn’t sleep with it in my room. Disney villains terrified me far beyond when it is socially acceptable to be terrified of Disney villains, and I had nightmares for months after watching not-that-scary movies like The Prestige and Angels and Demons. I’ve spent my whole life thinking that I’m a horror wimp. As the ghostly woman gets more demanding and dangerous, Finch and her new friends-including popular dancer Selena and cryptoid enthusiast Simon-must find out what and who she is and how to stop her before bloody history repeats itself. It could have gone either way because on one hand it is a LGBTQ+ fantasy novel, which is right in my wheelhouse, and on the other hand it’s a horror novel and historically I haven’t done well with horror.Īfter auditioning for a prestigious school, Finch and her parents are driven off the road by an eight-eyed deer and drowned… but Finch survives her death only to discover that a strange ghost is offering magical boons to schoolgirls in exchange for an increased connection to their world. For April, I read My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham. Every month Barnes and Noble picks several books of the month, and I almost always try to read one of them. ![]()
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