The Book Fix

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli are reviewing The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer, and suddenly, being unemployed doesn’t sound that bad. Macy is desperate for work when she comes across an unusually well-paying caretaker job. The catch? When she arrives, she discovers there’s no elderly husband to care for at all. Instead, she’s being paid to stay alone in a remote house and follow a very specific set of bizarre rituals left behind by the woman’s late husban...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli officially continue spooky season with a chilling hospital story about a nurse who spots something impossible on the security cameras. A young patient named Madeline appears alone in the hallway wearing a mysterious black dress, even though she is still asleep in her room, connected to an IV. Yajaira and Cheli discuss whether the shadow was the Grim Reaper, debate how scary ghostly children really are, revisit a disturbing ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Book Fix Podcast, Yajaira and Cheli head into the woods for another Nick Cutter nightmare with The Troop, and this time, they’re recording from an actual spooky cabin for maximum immersion. A group of teenage boyscouts heads to a remote island for what should be a normal weekend camping trip, but everything changes when a severely emaciated stranger appears at their cabin with an insatiable hunger. Their Scoutmaster, Tim, quickly realizes the man is infected ...

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 ...