Y’all, this book was a creepy delight! I haven’t had that much fun being freaked out in quite a long time. Then, on the way home, the bus breaks down and things take a turn for the spooky… But when her class goes on a field trip to a local farm, she can’t help but notice some eerie similarities.

When she starts to read it, she’s immediately pulled in by the creepy and bizarre tale. That’s why, when she finds a woman about to toss an old book into a river, she quickly saves it from a watery demise. But one thing she does still enjoy is reading. She’s closed herself off from people at school and even a little bit from her loving father. Ollie is smart and brave, but also reeling from a recent tragedy. In this novel, we’re following a young girl names Ollie Adler. Then the book was picked for the Middle Grade Marvels group book in August and I knew it was time! I had heard about Small Spaces from various sources and was curious about how I would get on with a horror novel geared towards a middle grade audience. Why, you ask? Mostly because those are the ones I see marketed! But I’ve recently begun to dip my toes into YA horror and, most recently, middle grade horror.

That being said, I tend to stick to adult horror novels. Though fantasy will forever and always be my top genre, there’s just something about a frightening tale that I love. “Wherever you go in this big, gorgeous, hideous world, there is a ghost story waiting for you.”Īs y’all may know, I’ve been a lover of horror books for awhile. Content/Trigger Warnings: Depictions of grief, deathīook Links: Bookshop:: Indiebound:: TBD:: B&N:: Amazon:: Goodreads One Sentence SynopsisĪfter the tragic death of her mother, Ollie Adler finds herself engrossed in a creepy book about Beth and the smiling man, which may hold more truth than Ollie realizes.

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