Genre: Gothic

THE PRINCE OF MOURNING By Jenn Bennett

Short and Sweet Review Molly is a nursing student and she’s doing pretty well. When a stranger calls upon Molly to become his live in nurse, Molly has no choice but to accept this new position. When Molly arrives at the secluded mansion she doesn’t immediately meet her new employer Voss, but has more interactions […]

THE HOUSE OF QUIET By Kiersten White

Short and Sweet Review Birdie is on her way to the House of Quiet as a maid in search for her sister. The house is on a bog and it’s a place where children who have had procedures done on them and now have powers are located. Even though Birdie is there to find her […]

LIES ON THE SERPENT’S TONGUE By Kate Pearsall

Short and Sweet Review It’s been a little while since we’ve been in Caball Hollow, and the town is still recovering from what went down in the summer. Rowan like the other women in her family has a power and her’s is the ability to smell when people are lying, because of this she’s built […]

THE FALL By Bethany Griffin

Short and Sweet Review The Fall is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher. Our main character and the only POV we get is from Madeline. When we meet Madeline she’s in a coffin and she was put there by her twin brother Roderick. The story is told through short non-chronological chapters […]

TOGETHER WE ROT By Skyla Arndt

Short and Sweet Review Wil’s mom has been missing for over a year and she knows the Clarke family had something to do with her disappearance. What complicates everything is that Elwood Clarke and Will used to be friends until Wil kept accusing his family of doing something to her mom. Elwood on the other […]

ALL THAT CONSUMES US By Erica Waters

Short and Sweet Review Tara goes to Corbin College which she can barely afford, but after a student from the elite Magni Viri society dies, there becomes an opening that is offered to Tara. She obviously jumps on the opportunity, tuition is free and after college most students land their dream jobs. After a few […]

A STUDY IN DROWNING By Ava Reid

Short and Sweet Review Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales, and since she was a young girl she has been haunted by the Fairy King. Her favorite author Emrys Myrddin wrote a book about a mortal falling in love with the fairy king and it just happens to be one of Effy’s favorite […]

A MULTITUDE OF DREAMS By Mara Rutherford

Short and Sweet Review Princess Imogen has lived in Goslind for three years, the castle has been boarded up so that the people living in the castle could avoid catching the bloody mori roja plague which has ravaged most of the kingdom. Imogen has a secret that she’s been hiding for the past three years […]

HOUSE OF ROOTS AND RUIN By Erin A. Craig

Short and Sweet Review Its been years since the events of House of Salt and Sorrows took place. Now Verity the youngest sister is seventeen and she still lives in Highmoor with her eldest sister Camille, while the rest of their sisters have left and are scattered about. When Verity gets a letter from her […]