Review of Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Goodreads Synopsis:


Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.

He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.


Who are the Sawkill Girls?

Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find.


Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken—or maybe everyone else is.


Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives, a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies.


Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires.

Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now

My thoughts:

When I attended Bookcon this year Sawkill Girls was one of the top books I needed but couldn't snag. So I requested this book at my local library and picked it up on release date ''you win some you lose some''. 
I must say this has to be one of my top three favorite books of 2018 I think Claire did a awesome job with this spooky story.
The setting/place of the story was its own character. Yes Sawkill Rock had a mind of its own and it made the story more shocking.
I loved the characters, manly Zoey. She is so hot headed lol I loved it! She has a ex-boyfriend named Grayson and he will have you all tangled up in your feelings by the end of the story. Reading about Zoey was interesting because I never read about a a-sexual character. I feel like Claire did great illustrating Zoey's sexuality. 
I think this was my first time reading a scary story with so much feminist flowing through the pages. Many horror stories have that "damsel in distress" trope I cant stand.
I also listened to this on audio book and when the MONSTER parts came up with him changing from a little boy to a complete monster had me shooked.
If you want to be scared read this and check out the audiobook it was entertaining and scary as hell with the different voices.

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.

He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.

That quote still gets me every time!!!!!

Review of Space Boy by Stephen McCrainie

Goodreads Synopsis: To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright. Her dad is like hot chocolate--sweet and full of gentle warmth.

Amy lives on a mining colony in out in deep space, but when her dad loses his job the entire family is forced to move back to Earth. Amy says goodbye to her best friend Jemmah and climbs into a cryotube where she will spend the next 30 years frozen in a state of suspended animation, hurtling in a rocket toward her new home. Her life will never be the same, but all she can think about is how when she gets to Earth, Jemmah will have grown up without her.

When Amy arrives on Earth, she feels like an alien in a strange land. The sky is beautiful but gravity is heavy and the people are weird. Stranger still is the boy she meets at her new school--a boy who has no flavor. 

My Thoughts: This graphic novel is what I needed after reading a couple over 400 page novels recently.

The story was so unique and realistic. The way Amy is feeling is exactly how a teenager would feel if she had to  be frozen for thirty years to return back to earth and still be the same age. I think her mom was kinda pushy on the subject of her calling her best friend who is now thirty years older than her. I cant blame Amy for blowing up like that towards her mom. The title confused me until we were introduced to the boy with no flavor so I'm hoping to learn more about him in part two. Such a great read I definitely think the series is worth a try.