Tales with Nicole

"I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans. The lucky one. As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row. Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone a...

When the Man with No Name breaks Emma's heart, she wants to die. But you never die from these things; you just want to. In a moment of weakness, she wishes her broken heart away and a mysterious stranger--who may or may not be totally evil--obliges. But emptiness is even worse than grief, and Emma sets out to collect the seven pieces of her heart spread across the country, a journey that forces her to face her own history and the cost of recapturing it, and leads inevitably to a confrontation with the Man with No Name himself! ( goodreads ) I was so excited when I heard of Heart in a Box , it sounded really cool and original. The storyline was really interesting and I wish I had loved this graphic novel as much as I wanted to but unfortunately it didn't deliver. Emma was a character I thought I would easily be able to connect with but I just wasn't a huge fan of her. I felt the story moved too quickly, it really was a good plot and more details and excitement would h...

Riverdale has become a guilty pleasure that I look forward to every Thursday on Netflix. Along with the storylines that remind me of PLL, which I very much miss, I can rely on these core four to keep me entertained not just in the Riverdale mysteries but also their love lives. After every episode where you never know which character will end up with whom, my friends and I like to debate the details of what happens weekly as well as voice our strong opinons on which relationSHIP we favor.   For Valentine's Day, here are TaleswithNicole's views on the Riverdale Core Four. Please note I did leave some ships out  (ex. Vughead & Jarchie) because they have not actually happened.         Archie: The Undecided     The whole premise of the Archie comics is that Archie cannot choose between Girl Next Door Betty Cooper and IT Girl Veronica Lodge. He constantly goes back and forth, dating both girls and it causes some te...

January18 book for Poison Apple Book Club Instagram: @taleswithnicole #poisonapplebookclub "Never assume. Question everything. Always look beyond the obvious." "In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he's put his past behind him, but then he gets a letter in the mail containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank--until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all th...

Amy Lukavics is one of my favorite YA authors, she creates a perfect nightmare of horror novels. Lukavics writes everything I could ever want from horror:   Novels: Daughters Unto Devils (2015)- Devil Possession The Women in the Walls (2016) - Ghost Haunting The Ravenous (2017) - Zombie Nightingale (2018) - Asylum aka Institution   Short Story: The Feeding (2017) - Common Phobias     Her newest novel, Nightingale , is going to be an amazing addition to her horror collection:   "At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn’t be—independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner’s domineering son. When June resists, her whole worl...

  Netflix Book Tag  was originally created on youtube by   A Darker Shade of Whitney This is the second written book tag I've done and it's actually really fun and different to do because I've only ever seen them done in videos, which just isn't my thing. It's my 26th birthday (yesterday)  and I decided to conbine two of my favorite things into one post, books and Netflix!!   I love Netflix, my boyfriend and I originally got Netflix in 2010 while living in university residence and have had it ever since. I love books and Netflix so I have wanted to do this tag for a long time and have watched a lot of people on youtube do this tag so I am excited to finally do my own version of it! 1. Recently Watched What is the last book you finished reading? Children of the Corn by Stephen King Children of the Corn is actually a short story, first published in Penthouse magazine, later published in a short story collection called Night Shift . I have ...