I know a good bit of people didn't like this book but I freaking loved it and that's all that matters =D I loved Makani and Ollie! I thought they were awesome together. And well, they got me a little hot and bothered at times. It was fanfreakingtastic! So this is a teen slasher type book. I'm not sure where anyone ever got off calling it a horror book. It's a mystery, suspense, young adult book. But, I digress. We have some nutter going around killing classmates. And I thought I might know who t...

I had a looooot of feelings about this book - actually, about how people have reacted to this book. So, I'm going to get a rant out of the way. Feel free to skip this paragraph if you don't like rants. People told me it was going to be absolutely horrible, that no self-respecting horror fan would enjoy it, that it didn't fit the horror genre, so on... alright. Lemme tell y'all something. I've been obsessed with horror movies AND books since I was five years old, roughly? I had a blast readin...

What happens when an author of cute, fluffy romances writes a gory slasher novel? I'll tell you: You get possibly the most romance-heavy, make out-focused slasher novel you will ever read.Pretty much everything went wrong with this book. If you want to read a story where most of the minor (i.e. we don't give a damn about them) characters die gory deaths in between repetitive make out/sex sessions, this is for you. I think it is supposed to be scary, but it isn't scary at all. Bloody does not equ...

Stephanie Perkins definitely excels at writing fast reads, and this was no exception. Now full disclosure, I'm an absolute chicken therefore, I hate anything scary and thus have 0 knowledge of slasher films or horror films in general. This book was basically the amount of gore and horror I can handle, sometimes it pushed me to my limits but for the most part it was fine. Based on my limited knowledge of these kinds of stories, I know the general outline, and this felt quite generic to me. The wh...

the only thing scary about this book is how terrifyingly bad it is. yikes. what a train wreck. disclaimer - im not one for scary things. movies, books, you name it. so when this is commonly compared to a slasher flick, i really have no way to determine if thats accurate. maybe it is and this is right on brand with that. i wouldnt know. but that still wouldnt make this a good story, by any means.i have many problems with this, but the main ones surround the killer. 1) the killer is revealed halfw...

As long as it's got your name on it, Stephanie Perkins, I'll read it. Even if it gives me nightmares.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if YA contemporary romance writer turned to the dark side? Apparently, this is it, and I’m slightly disappointed.This book is a high school murder mystery, kind of like Scream but not as good. Sorry, to admit it so early on, but the mystery in this book never really pulled me. Part of this may have been due to the fact that most of the victims are people we hardly know. If you want the audience to be afraid for the characters, you are gonna have to go a l...

This book could be divided into two different novels. On one hand you have a diverse love story with a splash of haunting past and on the other you have someone going around and killing students in a small town during Halloween. They work fine when they are two separate entities. Together, they create a mess. I still love Stephanie Perkins. I just don't think her mind is messed up enough to create a good slasher.

If you really truly are reading this because you love horror and live for slasher flicks, do yourself a favor and go read something else. In fact, I’m more than happy to send you a few recommendations. This, unfortunately, shouldn’t pass for horror. It’s a sad excuse for horror with absolutely zero tension, suspense, thrills, or afraid to look under the bed scares. Maybe it’s my fault being my first Stephanie Perkins novel. I know she’s famous for her YA romance novels, which just isn’t my genre...

Content warning: Several scenes of descriptive gore. Mention of suicide.Representation: The main character is African American and Native Hawaiian. There is an African American side character (her grandmother) and a trans male side character.Issues: The trans side character is deadnamed* twice in the finished copy I read (pgs 11 & 83), despite this having been brought to Perkins's attention as offensive by early readers of the ARCs. She did apologize in June of 2017 and said she had corrected it...

Obvious CW for gore & death, but also be aware that there are descriptions of severe hazing that may make some readers uncomfortable.As a previous fan of Stephanie Perkins, I knew horror would be out of her element, so I was interested to see what she could do with the genre. I have to say, I wasn’t disappointed but I also wasn’t totally won over. It was interesting without a doubt, but I’m not sure it exceeded my expectations. It kind of felt like a cheesy high school slasher film but in novel

OKAY, FINE. YOU WERE ALL RIGHT.I thought I knew better. I saw the unbelievably low average rating on this book and thought, Nah. It’ll be fine. I liked literally one single book that Stephanie Perkins wrote so I should have faith in her, even though I’ve one starred two others. Even though that 33% success rate was with contemporaries, a genre I actually like, and this book is horror, supposedly, which I am very, very picky with. I picked up this book anyway. And I expected to like it.I did not

UPDATE JUNE 10, 2017 .Now that was some wicked, delightful, bloody fun. I enjoyed this book so much. Probably more than I intended to. And it's extremely short. The book barely clocks in 300 pages. However, it is an arc so there's that but I actually, genuinely, enjoy this format a lot better. The main character is Hawaiian and there's some great LGBTQ representation in the book as well. I could relate very well with the main character, whose name is, Mariko Young. Going to a midwestern s

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/Words cannot even express the amount of joy it brings me when I am the first of my friends to read something. Well, when it’s something I liked - being the one to burst the bubble when a highly anticipated release turns out to be a turd kinda sucks. Anywho, when I saw this blurb . . . . “Scream meets YA” I had much excite! But then I saw the next part . . . . “ in this hotly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of

Another backlist title down and I had so much fun reading it!Man, I have too many reviews to write.Full review to come...stay tuned!!!Update: And it never happened. I never wrote a review and now I have Stephanie Perkins' latest YA Horror novel, The Woods Are Always Watching on my shelves!Perhaps, I should binge them both and actually then write a review for this...

Actual Rating: 2 1/2 Stars. Somewhat entertaining, a few great ideas that go underdeveloped, not much dramatic tension. Or like, any. It's, uh, basically a contemporary where people die and every fifteen percent it gets really messed up. GOOD THINGS ♔ Perkins has stepped up her game on avoiding tropes, surprisingly? Makani is definitely not the stereotypical virginal blonde protagonist - she's biracial, for one, she sort of hates herself and isn't afraid to take action, and she's also...

4.75* I'd heard mixed things before going into There's Someone Inside Your House, so I was a little apprehensive before reading. I've adored everything I've previously read from Stephanie Perkins' and didn't want to be disappointed. Thankfully, I'm very happy to say this book was no different, I wasn't disappointed at all. In fact, I absolutely loved it. There's just something about Stephanie Perkins' writing that never fails to pull me in from the get go. It's simple yet lovely, to the point an...

*3.25*I can’t tell that I didn’t enjoy this one. I liked it but I didn’t love it. Although, at the beginning it felt like it would be one of those boring thrillers with a predictable plot, I was taken by surprise. The suspense and the mystery made my heart beat uncontrollably in certain points of the novel. It was an easy and fast-paced read, best-suited to those who want some adrenaline in their veins.Great role in the plot played the friendship between Makani, Darby and Alex. They are those fr...

So missleading.. Literally not at all what I expected.I have way to many questions still and feel really confused.I LOVED the romance and the dialogue was fun but apart from that it was odd.Sentences just seemed like they had been placed awkwardly and the flash back scene was odd. I just feel like a lot of this didn't need to be in it.I am so sad that i didnt like this

PLEASE DON'T LET ME DOWN.————update:this did let me downi was expecting a slasher type horror book but instead i got a not very likeable and honestly kind of gross romance.half of the book was pretty much the two main characters doing the nasty while there was this serial killer in town WHICH when it was revealed their identity, the only thing i could think of was "what the f" because it was a super random character, and their reason for killing was honestly stupid.i was also pretty bored most o...