The Inheritance Games | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Little, Brown | Pub: 9/1/20 “If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?” When this book was getting ready to come out and I saw the synopsis, I knew I needed it and I knew I would love it. I am a huge mystery book lover and a huge YA lover. So, I mean, I couldn’t go wrong here. Avery is just your average high school kid. Trying to make it through by getting good grades, working at a diner to make some money to help her sister Libby with rent and treating a homeless man, Harry, to breakfast on the mornings she won chess against him. What Avery didn’t expect was someone rich coming to her high school to get her because she is needed to be present for a reading of a will for someone she had never met. As you can imagine, the will turns things all upside down and Avery is overwhelmed. She also gets to live at Hawthorne House, an endless mansion filled with secret passages and secret compartments....
  Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Del Rey Books | Pub: 6/30/20   “We thought monsters and ghosts were found in books, but they’re real, you know?” I went into Mexican Gothic with mixed feelings. The reviews for this book have been all over the place. So many people said this book was slow, boring, not scary and so I put it in my head that it would be a DNF for me. Mexican Gothic is about Noemi, who travels to High Place to check on her cousin, Catalina. Catalina fell in love and married quickly and wrote a very odd letter to Noemi’s father. Her father sends her to check up on her cousin, to make sure Catalina is okay. The Doyle’s were not properly ready for feisty Noemi. Thinking a woman would comply easily was a mistake… The amount of likable characters was super slim, but I suppose that was the point. I LOVED Noemi, I enjoyed Francis, and Catalina was good too though not really present. I am so glad I read this book! I didn’t find it slow at all. It was subtly...
  The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | Penguin Classics | Pub: 10/16/59   “People are always jealous.” This was my first classic I have read in a bit and my first Shirley Jackson book. I picked it up because I had just watched the show on Netflix , and I had fallen in love with the show. The book is closer to the movie The Haunting than the Netflix show and I have to say, I was fairly disappointed. I was expecting scary and chilling because that is all I have heard about Shirley Jackson, but I never felt scare at all during it… it was rather lackluster in my opinion. I did buy a second Shirley Jackson book, so I am hoping that one is actually scary. Synopsis (Credit:  Goodreads ) First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's  The Haunting of Hill House  has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidenc...