As I transition away from my serial killer obsession and into the world of cults, I decided to read one final book: The Surviving Girls by Katee Robert. I am a huge Katee Robert fan, but mostly for the Dark Olympus series. I didn’t even know she had this series of procedural romance (is that a genre? It’s what I’m calling it) but it includes one novel about a cult (which I’ve just started) and another about a serial killer (which I just finished). First things first — I can’t say this book was about a serial killer. The killer is called a serial killer throughout, but the actual murders…

My kids are starting to freak out that it’s mid-December and there’s no snow in our sleepy mountain town. I’m starting to freak out that our town doesn’t feel so sleepy anymore. It feels like every day there’s more traffic, less parking, and more pressing anger between our neighbors fighting for spots on the street. The only one who seems to be in a Christmas-y spirit are our neighbors who have blazed their house with all sorts of lights. It’s… a month. But in good news — I’m taking the last two weeks of December off work and plan to have plenty of time for reading and writing. What’s on…