I read this book in one afternoon—it was that good! The title refers to the way that they teach children to spell Mississippi in the South (M, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, humpback, humpback, I). Given that information, it is not surprising that the story takes place in rural Mississippi. [...]

Have you ever read a book that made you flinch as you were reading it? That was the case for me with Dark Places. Even though what I was reading made my stomach turn at times, I kept turning the pages—almost reading with just one eye opened and the other scrunched to the [...]