Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

In that book an AI developed by a teenage girl with personal problems interacts with the girl in a manner which took the novel into the areas of science fiction. I was a major fan of Naomi Gibson’s debut Every Line Of You and was a member of the librarian committee which nominated it for the YA section of the Trinity School Book Award. Do get in touch if you think you have something we might like and I’ll try to get around to it. The books are reviewed alphabetically and are all published in either January or February. The final two books are by authors new to me, Tess James-Mackey’s Someone is Watching You (another British newbie and Vietnamese American writer Trang Thanh Tran’s She Is a Haunting, both of which were eye catching debuts. Back in 2020 we reviewed Little Creeping Things, the debut of Chelsea Ichaso and although I missed Chelsea’s second and third novels, she returns with another dark thriller They’re Watching You. In 2021 we featured the incredibly bleak debut of Sara Walters The Violent Season (which made our top ten of 2021) and Sara is back with another pitch-black teen drama, Missing Dead Girls. Rebecca is back with the first part of a new duology, City of Nightmares, which is just as quirky and original as her debut trilogy. Cynthia Murphy also continues her impressive run with her third novel The Midnight Game and having reviewed Last One To Die (2021) and Win Lose Kill Die (2022) Cynthia is one of the queens of fast paced page-turning horror thrillers.īack in 2018 we reviewed the amazing debut novel of Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones, which kicked off the Market of Monsters trilogy and if you have not read this I cannot recommend it highly enough.

There is an exciting new generation of UK authors writing terrific dark YA fiction, with Naomi Gibson following the excellent Every Line of You (2021) with an intriguing second novel Game Over Girl, like its predecessor technology plays a big part in her latest.

In our latest roundup we have seven YA novels (no Middle Grade this time I’m afraid). Young Adult (YA) February 2023 Horror Roundup

Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso