What’s in a Name: Review of These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Any Shakespeare fans in the house? As a self professed lover of the Bard, I tend to jump on any adaption or story inspiration that’s released. So basically when I saw that first time author Chloe Gong was releasing a young adult novel These Violent…
Back to Basics: Classic Literature Month at Fully Booked
We’ve all read classic literature haven’t we? Whether for a school assignment, a book club or simply for the pleasure of it, at one point or another we’ve picked up a book which is widely – or sometimes debatably – considered to be a classic….
10 Frightfully Fantastic Horror Books by Authors of Color
Diversity in Horror Fiction So, you’re into horror? Same here. And not just in the fall; I’m a horror fiend all year long, which you might have already guessed from my previous articles here at Fully Booked. But just because you’re into one specific genre…
Vampires Never Get Old: Our Top 5 Stories in the Vampire Fiction Collection
Vampire Fiction in Short Form I’ve always been a sucker for a fun collection of short stories; I just love them. They’ve been a way in which I’ve discovered so many different authors, and it’s always such a treat in between full length novels that…
10 Gothic Horror Stories to Haunt Your Dreams
Who doesn’t love a good gothic horror novel in the fall? Big beautiful spooky houses, macabre families, doomed romance… so wonderful. Classic or modern, these are some of the most atmospheric stories around. If you’re looking for a moody fall read, gothic horror is definitely…
Exclusive: The Spirit in the Crypt: Q&A with Author Alexander Lound
Spook-tacular greetings to all! We at Fully Booked were recently given the opportunity to read the debut novel in Alexander Lound’s young adult Jonny Roberts series, The Spirit in the Crypt. This reader thoroughly enjoyed it, and wanted to get a little more insight into…
Mischief & Mediums: Review of The Spirit in the Crypt by Alexander Lound
Looking back on the experience, I realize that high school can be many different things for many different folks: insecurities, self-discovery, first love and psychic powers…hmm, there’s something off about that last one. However, that’s the case for Jonny Roberts, the protagonist of Alexander Lound’s…
Spooks, Specters and Shadows, Oh My – Horror Month at Fully Booked
It’s the spoo-kiest time of the yeeeaaar… that sounds better in my head. I’ll find a way to make it work. Anyway, it’s October and our theme this month at Fully Booked is perhaps unoriginal, but extremely appropriate: Horror, and to start off, we will…
The Spooky Goings on of Nightmare Hall
Is that a chill I feel in the air? As a kid, we all knew what cooler days meant: back to school! New sneakers, unsharpened pencils and shiny new textbooks, oh my. While I don’t remember the last time that I had a new textbook…
Princesses & Mediators: Top 5 Meg Cabot Books
You never forget the books you read as a teen. And Back to School month at Fully Booked is such a great time for us to take a trip down nostalgia lane and revisit some of our favourite young adult books from that time in…