Carniepunk: The Cold Girl

Author Rachel Caine brings us the short story about Kiley. Kiley finds out that there's a carnival in town and asks her boyfriend Jamie to take her. Jamie has been her obsession and one true love but he holds a dark secret. A secret of which will come out after he takes her to the caravel. Kiley has......more

I fell in love with Rachel Caine's Stillhouse Lake serie.. (which is in the thriller genre) and althought vampires are not my cup of tea, I wantet to try something else by the author. This is a short story, very YA, with a good lesson but without taking away the satisfaction.. you'll know what I mea......more

Well, I think this story definitely checks out as a Rachel Caine piece, haha. It's been a while since I read the Morganville Vampires series, but I felt like this had a similar vibe. (view spoiler)[The "vampire" aspect of this story was particularly interesting because the Cold Girl is essentially a blood-drinking (hide spoiler)]......more

This one really got my heart thumping and chills down my spine. Oddly enough, or not, it wasn't the supernatural elements that did it, but the too real human evil that permeated the story and raised the hairs on the back of my head.......more