The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry

Format: 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published: November 4, 2025 by Titan Books

Horror/borrowed

This book takes place during a long period of time. It starts with Jessie, an angry young teen, who dared her younger brother to visit a creepy house.

And said creepy house was the horrific murder scene of an entire family. And he gets eaten...I said it. That house is creepy.

The story is Jessie coming to terms with this. Finding out stories about the house. More kids will get eaten. She grows up, and that house still looms over the neighborhood.

It starts sort of slow. Sure the house is creepy and what the hell is going on, but it feels more focused on her journey and relationships with family and neighbors. And yes there are bloody things going on too.

I enjoyed this haunted house book

On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away from that house. But of course, children don't listen. Children think it's fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside.

Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didn't return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didn't believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had disappeared in a way that was ordinary, explainable.

The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie's family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alive—alive and hungry.

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Second, eh writing that boring 80 page masters thesis

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Best of October

 

Adios October!!! Helllllooooooo November!

Here are our faves for last month.

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

"Interesting fantasy murder mystery."

Carole -  Dracula by Bram Stoker (2026)

"The story is always good, but the voice acting in this version was just soooo good."

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Obsession (2025)

"So messed up but you can't look away!"

Blodeuedd - Vaiana (2026)

"I went to see Vaiana with my kid. If you want to know why it's not called Moana in Europe google at your own risk..."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Haunted Hotel (s2), The Rookie (s7), Below (2026), & Ghosts (s5)

"Binged Rookie s7. I watched Below, creepy! And haunted Hotel s2 cos it's the season. And Ghost s5!!!" 

Carole - Rutherford Falls (s1-2)

"Such a fun show! I am soooo bummed it was canceled after season 2."

Best Cover of the Month:

B's pick

C's pick

Pumpkin spice and not so nice

Narrated by: Stefanie Kay

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 10-13-22

Publisher: Monson Publishing LLC

Romance/audible

I...do not remember anything anymore. Even as I was listening I was drifting. No shade on the narrator, she did well. But this story was a bit, dunno really.

Also some reviews make me dull, some hating on it cos it is named pumpkin spice and they expected spice. LOL. It is a Fall book, I never thought anything else.

Anyway, Jenna has bad luck with me. She meets someone that she is coaching cos he is not a talker. They slowly...slowly! fall in love. And her family has a pumpkin farm. Very forgettable

If I were ever to write a memoir, it would be titled, Jenna Peterson’s Guide to Dating Emotionally Unavailable Men. I’m like a professional at it. I’m so good, I can take any dysfunctional man and turn him into Prince Charming, just in time for him to dump me and then go on to marry the next woman he dates. I’m about ready to give up on loving real men and focus on lusting over fictional men in the Turkish dramas I can’t stop devouring.

But then... I find a mysterious 50-dollar bill with a handwritten note on it that was donated to my family’s pumpkin patch by accident. And wouldn’t you know it, the mystery man it belongs to is emotionally unavailable, albeit freakishly attractive. I keep telling myself to walk away, but there’s something about Aidan St. Claire that makes me want to unravel all his secrets. All I know is he sure can heat up the cozy fall nights. I can’t help but think that maybe this time I’ll get to keep Prince Charming for myself.