Well, done, this! This was quite a marvelous book. It's a slow burn horror that was very clearly well thought out and planned. The narrative kept me guessing until the very end. There were twists and turns and mysteries. The book primarily tells the story of Megan Monroe and shifts between the present and 1996. There are other characters along the way, notably Graham Nolan, a detective trying to unravel one problem after another once faced with what seems like a fairly straightforward case ab...

3.0⭐️

Gotta love all the 90’s nostalgia. It’s giving I Know What You did Last Summer vibes.

Good Bones.
Bad Execution.
"Horror story" - Bit of a stretch.

Super fun read. Surprisingly weird (in a good way). Fast paced and really interesting story. It did leave me with questions and the amount of pov’s was a bit much for my preference, but overall very fun. The 90s vibes were on point and loved all the music references. As a teen of the 90s, it brought me back. 🫶

I had a great time talking with my book club about this. If you’d like to hear all of our thoughts, here’s the link.
https://www.youtube.com/live/q5tNVAcV...

Man, that was lousy... Maybe am I becoming picky, reading more and more horror but...I've to avoid spoiling so I won't be able to say much. Let's just say it's one of the lamest bad guys I've ever read about. The idea that brought it to life in this book, I mean.It wasn't worth much from the beginning, mainly because the tone wasn't scary nor thrilling at all but when came the first explanations... 🙄🤦NB: the cover is gorgeous but does not really fit with the story.NB2: all these references to ...

"She stifled a gag, eyeing the open bag and moving quickly to the emergency exit. She needed air. Another sidelong glimpse, just enough to put a dent in her sanity and suck the wind past her lips. That was a woman’s head in the bag, half cocooned by a lattice of bones. Her jaw was stretching and detaching. One eye bulged and came loose, clutched by a starfish. The other eye was glaring at her."How can you see a cover like this and not want to read it? If you said that you could, we cannot be fri...

I was kind of blown away by how much I enjoyed this book. When I first downloaded it and saw this amazing cover I was excited. Like, take a minute and look at that cover! I read the blurb and thought it sounded really interesting so I dove in. I was hooked immediately! It's dark, atmospheric, Lovecraftian (minus the racism, yay!) and paced perfectly. The dual timeline is easy to follow and the parts from the past are set in 1996 (my senior year of high school), which is the greatest year ever in...

Ye gods and holy fishes (and swimming heads) this started out pretty good. I’m going to have to go with three stars here, though, but I’m getting *a head* of myself.A young woman with children is approached by a ruthless reporter intent on digging up her hidden past. From there we flash back to her high school senior year and her close knit friends, who separated when school ended. We catch up with all of them in college, where some character development begins to take place. Then there’s a fish...

I stumbled upon the author Andrew Van Wey accidentally while browsing Reddit and I'm so glad I did! As a huge horror fan I find it quite difficult to find a novel that takes me by surprise and genuinely creeps me out, but Head Like A Hole did just that! This novel had a mix of many genres from horror and sci-fi to crime! The twists and turns keep you sucked in right from the very beginning, never letting up or slowing down! Van Wey writes in an extremely enjoyable, detailed and fast paced manner...

Ah, the '90s. After the Cold War, before 9/11. It felt like a decade of promise, of looking to the future. But underneath, there were the cracks. You could see it on the horizon, the destruction headed our way once the millennium rolled over. It's in that setting that we find Head Like A Hole, the latest novel from Andrew Van Wey. With Hole, Van Wey stretches his horror muscles a bit, letting the story unfold in different time frames and using an interesting narrative framing device (a podcaster...