Thriller Thursday!

Welcome to Thriller Thursday!

Today's reviews are a pair of horror books one by Todd Russell titled Fresh Flesh and the other is Malice by Griffin Hayes.  If you love scary stories then these books are for you.  They will get your imagination flowing and have you jumping at things that go bump in the night.

Review: Fresh Flesh by Todd Russell
Review: Malice by Griffin Hayes

Scary stories and movies have always been around.  We've all come into contact with them at some point in our lives - summer camp, ghost stories at slumber parties, urban legends that we just had to try out and various other things.  These things for me have always been a guilty pleasure, especially the psychological thrillers that get in your head and completely mess with you.  I've been hooked on authors such as Stephen King and even as far back as reading the Goosebumps and Fear Street Saga series by R.L. Stein.  I've been a horror junkie for as long as I can remember.

I love things that get into your head and make you almost afraid to turn off the lights at night because well, there just may be something out there that can and will eat you! *insert evil laugh here!*

In all seriousness, some of my favorite movies are psychological thrillers such as The Cell staring Jennifer Lopez (I realize most people thought this movie was crap, but I ABSOLUTELY adored it!).  I also am so entirely a pathetically drooling fangirl of the original Silence of the Lambs movie (not so much the movies of the other books in this series).  Anthony Hopkins can be my boogie man any day...just like Tim Curry can be my nightmare inspiring clown whenever his little heart desires.

We are all afraid of something, no matter how hard we try and deny it.  Clowns, bees, wasps, insects in general, thunder, lightning, the dark.  Something terrifies us and makes us wish that we could be cuddled and coddled until it goes away, or makes us want to do something to remove said fear inspiring thing from the general vicinity.

What makes you tremble? What are you most afraid of?

What are your favorite horror stories? Your favorite urban legends? What is your favorite scary movie?

Book Review: Malice by Griffin Hayes

Title:  Malice
Author: Griffin Hayes
Rating: 5/5

Summary:  When a series of shocking suicides rock the small town of Millingham, Massachusetts, the authorities are left with a single burning question. Why are all the victims gouging their eyes out?

Only seventeen-year-old Lysander Shore knows these aren't suicides at all. There's a serial killer stalking the people of Millingham. One that murders at will and never leaves a trace.

Soon, the long trail of bodies leads Lysander to a dark secret. One that traces back to a witch's trial and execution 350 years ago. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes the victims aren't nearly as random as they seem. In fact, the killer has a list and Lysander is next (taken from Goodreads.com).


Review:  This book, is definitely amongst my favorites.  I was drawn to the cover, drawn to the story from the blurb and it made me pause and go, “Alright, now I have to read this…,” and got it from Amazon.com for my Kindle and read it in just less than a full day – it sucked me in and wouldn’t let me go. 

I love paranormal, I love thriller and everything in between.  His writing is fantastic and there was little problem keeping my attention considering how quickly I finished this book.  There is murder, there is mystery and a small sampling of romance.  While it is all those things, it is also a bit of murder/suicide, creepy, witches, paranormal thriller type of book (stolen from Tana's Review because the wording is exactly what I’d use to describe this book!)

Dark secrets and shadows abound, and Lysander is the key, but can he unravel everything before he himself ends up like everyone else connected to the past, dead.  This is definitely a MUST read for any young adult paranormal lover!


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Book Review: Fresh Flesh by Todd Russell

Title:  Fresh Flesh
Author:  Todd Russell
Rating: 4/5

Summary:  The ocean surrounds the secret.
Last night a wicked storm swept a beautiful sacrifice onto the shore.
Shipwrecked Jessica Stanton is about to be discovered, cherished, and trained to survive on a remote island by a man who is not what he seems.
There is a place on earth where unrestrained evil flourishes.
Welcome home, Jessica.(Taken from Goodreads.com)


Review:  From the title, one would expect a zombie story, however this is most definitely not a zombie story.  More so it can be classified as a modernized pulp story, and it is a cross of Battle Royale, Lord of the Flies and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

It took me a few pages to get into the story, but with that nagging gut feeling that the twisted part of my mind that adored books like this told me to keep reading and I’m quite glad that I did.  I was sucked onto the island with the rest of them as their back stories began to unfold, and as I learned more and more about them I wasn’t exactly sure what in the heck to expect.  The ending was bittersweet, but as this was pretty much a horror story, it was fitting and I wouldn’t have expected anything less. 

This is one of those stories that lingers with you, and it is most definitely going to linger in the dark corners of my mind for quite some time.


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