Introducing Trex
the spooky sister
I've always been a person with diverse interests. I love a unicorn as much as a skull. I have a cabinet of curiosities, too many books, craft supplies enough for weathering an apocalypse, and an attempt at a vegetable garden. I love rainbows and bats equally. I have pretty broad tastes as a reader and enjoy horror as much as other fiction. I don't have the depth of knowledge some more devoted horror aficionados do. I probably haven't even read more than 100 titles that really qualify as true horror. That being said, it is definitely a genre I like and come back to frequently. I read even more horror now that I'm a mom and my days consist mostly of tiny cars, diapers, and PBS kids shows. I think it's something about escaping into a book that's the opposite of my life. What's the opposite of Daniel Tiger? Probably Dracula.
I think what I enjoy about horror is likely what most other readers also enjoy. I like gore, especially when it's surprising. I get excited by suspense and peril. I find comfort in a trope done well but love when an author adds their own flair, a twist, turns something on its head. At the core of a lot of my favorite horror stories is a struggle between something evil and an ordinary person unwillingly sucked into the hellscape of the narrative. And doesn't that ring true for most of us right now?
Really delicious horror is as complex and thematically driven as any other good work of fiction. It can hold up the mirror to the darkness in all of us while also giving us a framework to explore these corners of the soul at a remove from reality. Sometimes the lines between good and evil are blurred. Sometimes you feel deeply for Frankenstein's monster drifting away on a sheet of arctic ice.
Most of my reading these days is done lying in bed with a toddler somewhere close by. E-books have been a godsend. Because of that, most of my choices for this blog are going to be widely available and probably contemporary. I’m going to do my best to avoid spoiling the book while giving you enough to write a comprehensible review. My tastes and opinions are my own and I'm definitely an amateur so take anything you read with a grain of salt. Maybe you'll like the sound of a book and treat yourself. Snuggle into something cozy and pause your doomscrolling! Come explore whatever creepy book I've been reading to escape a millionth rewatch of Bluey.