Bookquarium

Mira Grant  is well known for her science-y horror novels. The Parasites trilogy, the Newsflesh trilogy (hellooooo, zombies + journalists), and probably my favorite, Into the Drowning Deep, which is about killer mermaids. Anything by Grant is basically an insta-click for me, and when I was learned she was writing a ghost story, I nearly peed myself in the excitement. And friends, it's worth the hype. Let's break it down, shall we? The Cover: Can we take a moment to admire that cover? One, it's an incredibly detailed and intricate drawing, which is being used less and less by publishers these days, but I'm glad they went with that direction in this cover. A woman, half floating in the sea, gazing at a creepy old house while tentacles begin to twine around her ankles. Had I known nothing about Mira Grant, I would have read this book based on the cover alone. The Plot: A group of four paranormal investigators, who happened to get famous solving crimes, accepts a co...

The Unhoneymooners This book basically has everything I want all wrapped up in a nice, neat bow. Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, tropical locales, curvy heroines. I don't know how Christina Lauren (a.k.a Christina and Lauren, two sisters who co-author romances together) put out so many books so fast but I'm damn glad they do because this one was DELIGHTFUL. The premise: Our heroine, Olive, is maid of honor at her twin sister Ami's wedding. She hates the best man, Ethan, who is brother to the groom, Dane. Semantics. Nearly everyone at the wedding gets food poisoning from a bad seafood buffet, and Ami begs her sister to go on her non-refundable Hawaiian honeymoon. The only problem? Dane offered the other ticked to Ethan. Ten days in a tropical paradise with the man she hates? Yes, it's just as delicious as it sounds. Olive was such a fun main character! And she was described as "curvy", which could mean anything really, but I chose to believe she...