#kayla cottingham

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🎃 Horror Books For Halloween 🎃

Part One!

(Row One) 🎃

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

(Row Two) 🎃

She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Haunting Of Alejandra by V. Castro

(Row Three) 🎃

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

#the honeys #ryan la sala #we don't swim here #vincent tirado #this delicious death #kayla cottingham #she is a haunting #trang thanh tran #hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #the haunting of Alejandra #v castro #the getaway #lamar giles #Delicious monsters #liselle sambury #house of hunger #alexis henderson #autumn #fall #autumnal #halloween #horror #books #horror books #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #booklr #happy Halloween

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This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

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Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those impacted slowly became intolerant to normal food and were only able to gain sustenance by consuming the flesh of other human beings. Those who went without flesh quickly became feral, turning on their friends and family. However, scientists were able to create a synthetic version of human meat that would satisfy the hunger of those impacted by the Hollowing. As a result, humanity slowly began to return to normal, albeit with lasting fear and distrust for the people they'd pejoratively dubbed ghouls. Zoey, Celeste, Valeria, and Jasmine are all ghouls living in Southern California. As a last hurrah before their graduation they decided to attend a musical festival in the desert. They have a cooler filled with hard seltzers and SynFlesh and are ready to party. But on the first night of the festival Val goes feral, and ends up killing and eating a boy. As other festival guests start disappearing around them the girls soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and making them feral. And if they can't figure out how to stop it, and soon, no one at the festival is safe.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but I really want to, it sounds interesting.

#this delicious death #kayla cottingham #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #horror #ya #trans woman #to read

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Boarding School Thrillers

My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham People Like Us by Dana Mele Fraternity by Andy Mientus A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee As I Descended by Robin Talley Bonus: Coming this fall, The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson, and coming in 2024, With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman

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#A Lesson in Vengeance #As I Descended #Dana Mele #Derek Milman #Kayla Cottingham #Kosoko Jackson #My Dearest Darkest #People Like Us #Robin Talley #The Forest Demands its Due #Victoria Lee #With Love & Mischief

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New Young Adult Releases! (April 25th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

Becoming A Queen by Dan Clay

No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

When We Had Summer by Jennifer Castle

An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby

Robin & Her Misfits by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Vape by Cynthia Kadohata

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Happy reading!

#joan f smith #sarah beth durst #victoria ying #dan clay #amy spalding #jennifer castle #rosalyn eves #brittany n williams #kayla cottingham #matthew j. kirby #kelly ann jacobson #cynthia kadohata #books #bookish #booklr #bookworm #bookaholic #bibliophile #book blog #book blogger #Features #new releases #new books #tbr #to-read #yalit #yareads #young adult #book list

[purple-dragon]

last week i read this delicious death, by kayla cottingham, and i really enjoyed it overall, but there was one specific aspect that i loved and want to talk about a little more. spoilers below:

this delicious death is a book that i would describe as tokyo ghoul-esque in nature with regards to the content. you have your protagonists, four teenage girls who, during a worldwide apocalyptic event, were turned hollow (ghouls, pejorative) and must now consume human flesh to survive. though there is synthetic flesh available to them, the stigma of being a 'ghoul' is still present and affects their daily lives, to the point where when they go to a music festival, they and their fellow ghouls start getting drugged with a substance that makes them go feral and kill people, increasing the public's fear and distrust of ghouls in general.

it's a great concept, in my opinion. part murder mystery, part social criticism, part romance (best friends to lovers and the li is a trans woman? i love it i love her), and all around good time. it's genuinely so fun fr fr !!

but the part that i personally liked the most was the way that the author allowed the characters to keep their humanity. the four main girls have a choice at the end to either kill/leave for dead or save the person who (though coerced and manipulated) caused all of the problems and hurt/killed a lot of people, and they choose to save him.

it's not that they even like him at this point - he's hurt all of them, and they owe him nothing. but they empathize with him, because he's doing all this out of being manipulated and sheer guilt about what he did during the hollowing, and they understand, because they also did horrible, reprehensible things during the hollowing. they understand how he feels, and they don't condemn him for it.

it would have been very easy to make them the type of characters who would leave him for dead. the type of hard, cold, girlboss no mercy type of character that i see so often in ya/na novels nowadays. they could have left him, but they chose not to, and that's what's been hitting me.

that moment, i feel, is what made them the most human of all the characters, even despite the fact that they're ghouls, and that's the choice that made this book go from good to great for me.

#there were a few small minuses for me but overall it's a very slay novel #this delicious death #kayla cottingham #ya novels #the dragon reads #the dragon breathes fire

[the-final-sentence]

And the future was ours.

Kayla Cottingham, from This Delicious Death

#Kayla Cottingham #This Delicious Death

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Title: This Delicious Death | Author: Kayla Cottingham | Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (2023)

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This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

"I remember once seeing a piece of art that said the people you love become ghosts inside of you. What I realized now was that it was true of the people you killed too."

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 3/5

About: Zoey, Celeste, Valeria, and Jasmine are all ghouls, affected by the pathogen released three years ago that gave some of the population a hunger for human flesh in an event known as the Hollowing. Ghouls who don't eat will quickly turn feral, but there's a synthetic alternative called SynFlesh to keep ghouls and humans living peacefully together. The girls are headed to a music festival in the desert, but when Val goes feral the first night and kills someone, the others will have to race to figure out who's drugging ghouls to make them lose control. Trigger warnings: character death, gore, body horror, drugging, sexism.

Thoughts: I don't have any real complaints about this, and had I still been the target teen audience, I think I would have loved having some girl-centric zombie content. The female/wlw/trans/poc representation are much-needed additions to the horror genre, which tends to be overwhelmingly none of those things. The main characters are likable enough, and I enjoyed the solid friendships among the four of them. They'll literally fight monsters, the patriarchy, and themselves (from, y'know, becoming monsters) for each other, and it's a powerful message.

I also enjoyed Cottingham's zombie lore quite a bit. The flashbacks to the outbreak slow down the pace a bit, and I wasn't as interested in that timeline as I was in the current one, but they provide some interesting insight into the girls' transformations. It's cool to see how the world has adapted to the Hollowing but obviously still retains some prejudices. The setting is a full-on music festival mood, complete with an over-abundance of rock 'n roll fuckboys. It's fun, gory, and relevant to the contemporary world of social influencing and tracking our every move online, if not something I'm likely to reach for again.

#book review #kayla cottingham #this delicious death #ya horror #zombie fiction #zombies #horror #3/5 #rating: 3/5 #2023

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

My favourite morning ritual: coffee, my current read, and my little man 🐶☕️📖

#booklr #book photography #book picture #my dearest darkest #kayla cottingham #bookworm #bibliophile #ya fiction #ya horror #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #i read ya #books and dogs #books and coffee #open book #my photos #mine

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'𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒕' 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰.

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"Wʜɪʟᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏᴡɴs ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ɢʜᴏsᴛs, Rᴀɪɴᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ's ᴡᴇʀᴇ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ. Tʜᴇ ɪsʟᴀɴᴅ ʜᴀᴅ ᴀ ʜᴀʙɪᴛ ᴏғ ᴋᴇᴇᴘɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ʟᴏɴɢ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ɢᴏɴᴇ.

Aɴᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ Fɪɴᴄʜ Cʜᴀᴍʙᴇʀʟɪɴ sᴛᴇᴘᴘᴇᴅ ғᴏᴏᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ Rᴀɪɴᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ, Mᴀɪɴᴇ . . .

𝗜𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿."

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5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

It takes so much for me to rate something a five-out-of-five, but seriously? This book is amazing. Everything about how they approach lesbian themes, to supernatural/creepy themes, to gore. Oh, it makes me feel how it is intended. If you're a fan of horror, I would really recommend this book. The plot twists are something that had my mouth open— and how this book goes from 1 to 100 quickly with the gore is flattering. What else can I say . . .?

Oh, yeah, Selena is a bi queen and Finch is a lesbian queen. Take that as you will, and I would GENUINELY recommend reading this in one sitting. <3

Page number: 350 pgs.

Author (c): Kayla Cottingham

TW (TRIGGER WARNING)s:

Gore

Teenage cringe

Creepy description tellings

(No, not putting lesbianism as a trigger, fuck off if you're homophobic) Romance [Both straight and gay]

Cults

Suggestive themes (not that much, no smut or anything

Gay panics 😻

#my dearest darkest #kayla cottingham #5/5 stars #5/5 review #positive reviews #lgbtq community #lesbian books #horror books #horror #lesbian #lgbtq #books and reading #books #book lover

[cococastiel67]

"Maybe you can be my home. And I can be yours."

#this delicious death #kayla cottingham

[oracleofmadness]

This is a delicious treat of a horror book! A full course meal that left me completely satisfied! I love new takes on the zombies and monsters of horror any day, but this is going down as a favorite.

Zoey and her friends are ghouls. They are a part of the Hollow People that make up a section of the world's population now. Ghouls become gaunt, a bit elongated, with claws and vicious fangs and require human meat to live on. That's why Zoey and the girls are taking a nice big cooler of Synflesh with them to a desert music festival. However, it's not a fun festival for long.

I loved this so much! It really made me laugh while being creepy and gory, which is a difficult task.

Content warnings for gore, violence, death, and mention of deadnaming.

Out April 25, 2023!

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #book review #currently reading #read #bookblogger #reading #horror stories #horror novels #horror story #horror #monster horror #this delicious death #kayla cottingham #netgalley review #netgalley

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July 2023 Book Announcements

Adult Fiction TikTok creator, CEO of Beegrizwrites, and romance book ghostwriter Becca Grischow‘s HOMETOWN ADVANTAGE, a queer twist on the traditional small-town holiday rom-com, where two former classmates reunite for a drunken, banter-filled night and a long weekend of hijinks, falling hard along the way; and a second novel, pitched loosely as Bridesmaids meets Ashley Herring Blake, to Nidhi…

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#Allie Therin #Carli J. Corson #Chloe Seager #Elizabeth Holden #Elle Arroyo #Emily St James #Every Exquisite Thing #It&039;s a Love/Skate Relationship #Kayla Cottingham #Laura Steven #Mighty Millie Novak #Practical Rules for Cursed Witches #Victoria Marini #Woodworking

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Reluctant Reader Wednesday: My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham 

When Finch starts the school year as a transfer student at the prestigious, private, and competitive Ulalume Academy, her life has already gone through some major changes. 

The day of Finch’s audition for the school’s music program, as she and her parents were driving home, their car went off the road and into a river. Finch’s parents both died, but Finch survived … although she doesn’t understand how that could have happened. Because her heart stopped, and then something started it up again. 

Now Finch is a student at Ulalume, and things are even more complicated for her than just the weirdness of coming back from the dead. As she meets new students, she has to figure out which ones have the potential to become her enemies, her friends, or even something more than friends. Plus, the old school has some secrets of its own, including several mysterious disappearances and a strange creature that can be found by exploring the tunnels underneath the school.

Give this book to teens who are fans of sapphic horror and dark academia!

#Reluctant Reader Wednesday #My Dearest Darkest #Kayla Cottingham #horror #LGBT #LGBTQ #paranormal #Kingsbridge Library #NYPL

[eleven-fiftynine]

I already felt like a monster, but they’re the ones that made me believe I actually am one.

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

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