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The Gravewood
by Kelly Andrew 🐣🐣🐣🐣 4/5 ducklings tl;dr what happens when your boyfriend’s boyfriend’s sister goes missing in a forest that may or may not literally eat people? Um. What the hell did I just read? I haven’t yelled at a book this much in very long time. I went on a picnic and decided it was time to leave the third time I yelled “Oh, shit!” and got some concerned looks from two lovely people playing with their dogs. I had so much fun reading The Gravewood! It’s the kind of
Jun 15


Spoiled Milk
by Avery Curran 🐣 1/5 ducklings tl;dr: a school for young girls is decaying, but the real decay is internalized misogyny and homophobia? I'm going to be honest, I did not like this book. I'll be as kind as I can, but I didn't find much redeeming about it. I hate it when I don't like a book, and not just because of the effort I made to read it. A novel, especially a debut novel, is so personal and it has a little piece of your soul, so it feels really bad when you receive neg
Mar 27


The Starving Saints 2: Medieval Boogaloo
I'm definitely reaching, but I love a deep literary analysis.
Jul 26, 2025


The Starving Saints
by Caitlin Starling 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 6/5 ducklings - yes, that's 6 ducklings, no I'm not good at math, but that's not relevant here. It's my...
Jul 15, 2025


Scrimshaw
By Ethan M. Aldridge 5/5 ducklings 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr Nev finds a skull with mysterious carvings on it in the Deephaven basement. Then bad...
Dec 14, 2024


Deephaven
By Ethan M. Aldrigde 5/5 ducklings 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr Nev’s new school is hiding a dark secret and, along with their best friend Danny,...
Dec 10, 2024


Come Out, Come Out
By Natalie C. Parker Originally published September 2024 3/5 ducklings 🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr The real horror is homophobia. *** Something lives in...
Sep 12, 2024


This Gilded Abyss
By Rebecca Thorne Originally published March 2019 4/5 🐣🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr: Two exes are forced to spend time together on a dangerous mission...
Mar 31, 2019
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