• 5 stars
• September 12th
• Buy on Amazon

I don’t know where to begin with this new horror novel from Maria Lewis, I loved it all, I loved the characters, the story, the writing, the film references, the Spotify playlist, everything about this is perfect.

Tinsel, our main character, hosts The Graveyard Shift an 11pm-6am radio show themed around horror. The book starts on Halloween when a caller is murdered while on air, and soon she’s not the only one. As the bodies start piling up Tinsel’s relationship with her boyfriend ends, she moves in with her true crime blog writing sister, Pandora, and she works closely with Detective James to avoid being the next victim.

This book is so well written, sometimes it felt like watching a movie, the deaths are described so well, there were a couple of times where I felt my heart quicken during the tension.

Tinsel is an amazing character and I’d love to read more about her and Pandora working on other crimes, mainly because it would mean more of Maria Lewis’ writing, but also because I want to hear more about Tinsel. She’s a character that I want to be friends with, not your typical final girl, she’s less Laurie Strode 1979 and more Laurie Strode 2018.

Maria’s love of horror really comes through, and that’s another one of the things that makes this so enjoyable, the references span not just the classics that you’d expect but more obscure ones, especially so in the music choices.

This book has made me want to read more horror, I used to read Stephen King and James Herbert as an ansgty teen in the 90s and this book has brought me back.

I can’t wait to read more from Maria Lewis.