December ScaredyKIT Challenge: Catch-Up! Read Something That Fits Any Month's Theme

Hi, fellow horror readers! This month is basically a free month, when you can read anything that fits any theme from the previous 11 months. You might choose a book you didn't get to the first time or something you saw recommended on here or just return to a favorite category. Share with us what you're reading and don't forget to update the wiki!

As a reminder, here are all the themes for 2024:
January: Psychological Thrillers (LibraryCin)
February: Gothic (Tess_W)
March: True Crime (mstrust)
April: Witches, Evil Spirits, and Black Magic (whitewavedarling)
May: Graphic Novels and Short Fiction (antqueen)
June: Serial Killers (LibraryCin)
July: Corporeal Undead (DeltaQueen50)
August: Middle grade and YA horror (JayneCM)
September: Stephen King and Family (lowelibrary)
October: Contemporary Horror (mstrust)
November: Things with a Bite - Vampires and Werewolves (lowelibrary)

I am planning on revisiting October's theme of Contemporary Horror with The Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill.

>2 DeltaQueen50: I really enjoyed that one when I read it.

>3 sturlington: Good to hear!

I've got a couple of Joe Hill books...........

For the monthly theme, I chose March's true crime. In March I read a very badly written Lizzie Borden book. This month I read The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller, a much better-written book.

I have completed my DecemberScaredy-Kit read with A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill.

I've been slowly working my way through my Contemporary Horror read since October (Nefando by Mónica Ojeda — it's in Spanish, I'm not fluent) so it's going to end up a catch up read this month!

I decided to go with one of my favourite themes of psychological thriller, and read:

Pretty Baby / Mary Kubica
4 stars

Hanna helps homeless people in her work. When she sees a young girl and a baby in the rain beside the L train a couple days in a row, she decides to help them by bringing them home. The girl tells Hanna her name is Willow and that she’s 18-years old, though Hanna is certain she is younger (but it would be illegal to not turn her in if she is younger, so Hanna just sees what she wants to see). Hanna is married to Chris and has an 11-year old daughter, Zoe. Chris works at a well-paying financial job that has him travelling a lot… often with a beautiful woman, Cassidy, whom Hanna doesn’t trust.

The book is told from three points-of-view: Hanna’s, Willow’s and Chris’s. As the story goes on, we go back in time to hear Willow’s story, as well. It’s actually pretty slow-moving through most of the book, but there are some good twists at the end, at least one I never would have guessed.