Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Stolarz | Review + Quotes |
- mandyisreading
- Nov 11, 2023
- 2 min read
I was so excited and honored to be a part of this book tour! My review is below as well as some graphics for the quotes. Definitely a great read for this time of year.
Rating: 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️(⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
This one read like a slasher flick, and with the short chapters, it kept me intrigued. With the creepy phone calls, and suspense that kept building, it very much reminded me of Scream but with witchy vibes, since the main character Stacey had a spell book, and often used it, as she is trying to figure out who is going to murder her best friend and roommate, Drea. Stacey has dreams that act as premonitions and in her recurring one, Drea gets killed. The clock starts ticking once Drea receives 4 lilies, representing the 4 days she has left.
I liked this book, and it was a relatively quick read. The only thing really was that the people have some pretty weird habits. My biggest gripe was with Stacey constantly wetting the bed, like just get an adult diaper 🫣 but the whole pee thing was a good indicator of when we are reading about a dream so it’s a good motif. Also her friends kind of sucked but I feel like those kinds of personalities as friends was a very prominent thing in the time this book was written (early 2000s) so it also makes sense.
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Synopsis:
I know your secret…
Stacey’s junior year at boarding school isn’t easy. She’s not the most popular girl at school, or the
smartest, or the prettiest. She’s got a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, and an even darker secret
that threatens to ruin her friendships for good. And now she’s having nightmares again.
Not just any nightmares – these dreams are too real to ignore, like she did three years ago. The last
time she ignored them, a little girl died. This time they’re about Drea, her best friend who’s become
the target of one seriously psycho stalker. It started with weird e-mails and freaky phone calls.
Now someone’s leaving Drea white lilies – the same death lilies that have been showing up in
Stacey’s dreams. Everybody thinks it’s just a twisted game . . . until another girl at school is brutally
murdered. There are no witnesses. Worst of all, no one has a perfect alibi. With everyone as a
potential suspect, Stacey turns to the one secret weapon she can trust – the folk magic taught to her
by her grandmother.
Will Stacey’s magic be strong enough to expose the true killer, or will the killer make her darkest
nightmares come true?
Content Warning: Stalker, Murder
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Be sure to check out the rest of the tour at TBR Beyond Tours site!
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Thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours and the author for the gifted copy of this book, and to be part of the tour.
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