Morgan

• Book: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
  • Genres:
    • Dark Academia
    • Mystery Thriller
    • Adult Contemporary
  • Author: Ashley Winstead
  • Quote: “It's funny how the world reshapes itself according to your desires, if you demand it.”
  • Goodreads rating: 3.79
• Book: The Last Party
  • Author: A.R. Torre
  • Genres:
    • Psychological Mystery Thriller
    • Crime
    • Horror
  • Quote: “They worry that I don’t understand when lying is acceptable, but I know more than they think. I’m smarter than both of them, and I’m smart enough to realize that I should keep that knowledge to myself.”
  • Goodreads rating: 4.07
• Book: Everyone Here is Lying
  • Author: Shari Lapena
  • Genres:
    • Mystery Thriller
    • Crime
    • Adult Contemporary
  • Quote: “She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of – it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.”
  • Goodreads rating: 3.78

Jenna

• Book: Hemlock & Silver
  • Author: T. Kingfisher
  • Genres:
    • Fairytale reimagining
    • Fantasy Horror
    • Adult Romance
  • Quote: “That’s humans for you, I suppose. In dreadful danger, with the weight of the world crushing us down, we’ll somehow still find ourselves thinking, I wonder if he likes me?”
  • Goodreads rating: 4.10
• Book: A Study in Drowning
  • Author: Ava Reid
  • Genres:
    • Dark Academia
    • Gothic Mystery
    • Young Adult Romance
  • Quote: “But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.”
  • Goodreads rating: 3.71
• Book: The Possession of Alba Díaz
  • Author: Isabel Cañas
  • Genres:
    • Historical Fiction
    • Gothic Horror
    • Paranormal Fantasy
  • Quote: “All she had ever wanted, all she had ever lived for, was the inverse of this perverse imprisonment. To command her own life. To command her own body, to decide to whom it was given and when.”
  • Goodreads rating: 3.95

Devyn

• Book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Author: Shirley Jackson
  • Genres:
    • Gothic Horror
    • Mystery
    • Classic Fiction
  • Quote: “I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come.”
  • Goodreads rating: 3.91
• Book: The Maid's Diary
  • Author: Loreth Anne White
  • Genres:
    • Psychological Suspense
    • Mystery Thriller
    • Crime
  • Quote: “Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative. The golden family you think you know from the luxury home down the street—they’re not who you believe they are. They have faults, secrets. Sometimes dark and terrible ones.”
  • Goodreads rating: 4.20
• Book: Wild Dark Shore
  • Author: Charlotte McConaghy
  • Genres:
    • Eco Mystery Thriller
    • Literary Fiction
    • Adult Contemporary
  • Quote: “But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
  • Goodreads rating: 4.14