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When The Wolf Comes Home
By Nat Cassidy
(April 22, 2025)
SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR, THRILLER
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.
As they attempt to evade the boy’s increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first, Jess thinks she understands what they’re up against, but she’s about to learn there’s more to these surreal and grisly events than she could’ve ever imagined.
And thats when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.
2025 ARC (Approved) Titles
Mayra: A Novel, Nicky Gonzales
How to Survive A Horror Story, Mallory Arnold
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, Leila Taylor READ 
Tell Them You Lied, Laura Leffler READ
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig READING 
The Summer I Ate The Rich, Maika Moulite READ
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer (S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery, #1), Maxie Dara READ
Latest Book Review
3.89
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group for this title.
The Summer I Ate The Rich, Maika & Maritza Moulite
I didn’t think there would be a twist when I saw “Haitian Zombie Lore” in the synopsis. Brielle is a zombie, but not the mad-flesh-craving, brain-eating, slow-moving kind. Well, not so much because she does crave raw meat at times.
♪ 𝄞 
♪ ♬ They want to steal your brains 
and eat your knowledge ♪ 𝄞 ♪ ♬…yeah, not that. (LOL)
In Haitian lore, it’s different. In this story, we learned that Brielle is a zombie, but not of her own doing, nor of a reanimated corpse brought back to life through the supernatural powers of a bokor. Brielle is an intelligent young woman, and I love YA novels that show this side of people. You can be poor in finances but rich in life.
Her only goal is to take care of her family, especially her Mom, who has chronic pain. Brielle wants to be a cook, and at just 17, she’s a genius in the kitchen. Everyone loves her cooking, even though it has a “special” ingredient.
Brielle was beginning to grow her supper club when an opportunity came to help her community and those less fortunate. Although Bre did what she could for the greater good, it was illegal. Instead of being arrested, her repayment for that incident was to intern for a big pharma firm in Miami. Brielle (while she didn’t like it) figured this would be an excellent opportunity to help her family. She could make money and add her mother to her medical plan. [More]
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My Draft 2025 Goodreads Challenge [Updated]
Key
= Owned Audible
= Will purchase
= Owned hardcopy
= Owned Kindle
= Reading/Listening
So far, this list has 19 24 titles (not including ARCs). Last year, I read 39 38 books, just two books shy of my 40-book goal. Listed below is my first initial list, which always changes throughout the year, and I’ll keep this updated on this platform and my Notions page.
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- 80s Ghosts, V.S.Lawrence
- A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, Scott Drebit
- All Night Horror Show (Friday Night Frights Book 6), Eric Mosher
- Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Jayne Allen
- Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle
- Don’t Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones
- Heads Will Roll, John Winning
- Holly, Stephen King
- Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies, Hadley Freedman
- Midnight Showing (Malice Compendium #2), Megan Shepherd
Murder Road, Simone St. James READ - So Thirsty, Rachel Harrison
The Body, Stephen King READ
The Cursed Among Us, John Durgin READThe Mary Shelley Club, Goldy Moldavsky READ- The Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
- The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, Paulette Kennedy
- The House at the End of Lacelean Street, Catherine McCarthy
The Summer I Ate the Rich, Maika Moulite (ARC) READ- Their Vicious Games, Joelle Wellington
- This Delicious Death, Kayla Cunningham
- When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix
- 80s Ghosts, V.S.Lawrence
Bookish Blogs & Sources I Enjoy
https://www.goodreads.com/
https://bookriot.com/
https://www.bookbub.com/launch
https://pagesunbound.wordpress.com/
https://bookwormgirl.co.uk/
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