The Book Fix

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are diving into an ARC of The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas, and this gothic YA fantasy gave them A LOT to talk about. Sixteen-year-old Minerva Treviño thinks she’s finally escaped the worst of her life when she leaves her abusive home to work for Encarnación del Valle. But when political violence forces them to flee to the isolated del Valle estate, Minerva quickly realizes the family drama may be the least terrifying...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are bending the rules of time with Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker which is a dark, eerie story that connects two people living hundreds of years apart. In the present day, Lee Turner flees to his father’s home in Japan after becoming convinced that he murdered his college roommate… except he has no memory of what he did with the body. Then there’s Sen, a young samurai living in 1877 under the brutal expectations of her ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are back with another Reddit Paranormal episode and this time, they’re heading beneath the streets of Paris. After examining a chilling photo taken inside the Paris Catacombs, the hosts debate whether the mysterious woman in white standing at the end of a dark, blocked-off tunnel is a ghost, a trick of the light, or simply someone who has made the catacombs her home. Either way, Cheli wants absolutely nothing to do with her...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are continuing spooky season with The Lamb by Lucy Rose, and apparently September has become the month of cannibalistic families. The Lamb follows eleven-year-old Margot, who lives alone with her mother, Ruth, in an isolated cabin where lost travelers, known as “strays” have a habit of disappearing. To Margot, her mother’s hunger for human flesh is simply a normal part of life. She loves Ruth, wants desperately to understan...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are back with another Reddit No Sleep story and this one is less traditionally spooky and more emotionally devastating. They dive into a chilling tale about a man whose soul is attacked by a mysterious parasite, causing him to experience his life completely out of order. One moment he is meeting the love of his life, Mar, and the next he is discovering they have been married for years and share a child he does not remember....