Frost Bite is an absolutely delightful read with the perfect blend of horror, camp, and nostalgia. Sylvaine is a gifted storyteller who captures the complexity of humans in our darkest moments. This is the first of her works that I’ve read and I can’t wait to check out her other books.

-✨Book Review✨-Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ +Spiciness: 0/10🌶️Reminded me of: Pure chaos. In the absolute best way. Also SO much 90’s nostalgia! 🤪✵𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢: It’s 1997, right before Christmas in the town of Demise, North Dakota. A meteor has just crashed landed in the trailer park, and uh oh it appears and alien hitched a ride on this meteor. Now, it’s infecting the local animal populations and spreading to the populace with a memory-loss inducing bite! It’s up to nineteen-year-old Raelene and her best friend Nate to put an end to these worms! 🪱✵𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜: What an absolute riot!! This book is so weirdly wonderful, full of chaos, and I am SO here for it!!This is one of those reads I would absolutely adore to see adapted to film. The setting is in a small town in N. Dakota and in the 90’s, nonetheless! Plus, it’s cold as all getup. 🥶The author does a great job setting the stage too, getting you to care about the main characters before the mass mahem descends. Which made things all the better, in my opinion.And oh my goodness does mahem descend!! THIS is the chaos I’ve been looking for in a horror. I absolutely ADORED this ride!Fun Stuff:🦫 Scary Attack Prairie Dogs — I mean, come on, how fun is that?!🍭 Sweets-addicted FMC😎 90’s Nostalgia References!🔥 Pure Unadulterated Chaos🩸 Eat Your Horror Heart Out✵𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: Do yourself a favor and read this book!✵✵

Frost Bite is one chilling tale (yes pun intended) that was full of action, adventure, and nostalgic 90s references. And I loved every second of it!Everything happens pretty much in the span of 24 hours. Demise, North Dakota goes from boring small town to quarantined disaster zone after an alien worm infected meteor crashes into the field across from Realene’s trailer park. After oozing into the soil and infecting the hibernating prairie dogs all **** breaks loose as the “infection” quickly spreads turning neighbors against each other and causing widespread memory loss. Throw a doomsday cult into the mix and it’s a quirky recipe for a great winter read.This was a fast-paced page turner and we had a great time reminiscing in our buddy-read chat as we went. Definitely add this one to your winter TBR. Its sequel is set to be released Spring 2025!

I love stories where the people are as scary as the monster. Man, this book blew by, and I enjoyed every bit. So let's get to it...Realene is ready to go to college. She wants to get away and leave where she has grown up. Her dad is dead and gone, her mom has alzheimers. And then the meteorite hits one cold, snowy night. It comes with the white snow, leaking black wormy things. The next day, the prairie dogs are disturbed and the cult in town believes their dark prophecy is underway. I don't want to give too much away, except to say, don't be fooled by the cover, this read doesn't hold back the horrors and deaths. It left me gasping a few times. I also loved the nostalgia 😍

I buddy read this with a couple friends and we were all excited to crack this open. Light horror that is perfect for the snow season.Set in North Dakota, Frostbite is exactly as advertised if you’ve heard about this one already. It is nostalgia, coming of age, and quirky alien invasion. What sets this apart though is these aliens have cute faces and those faces want to tear you apart.Sylvaine does a great job at developing the characters and I really liked Realene and Nate and their relationship. At times it felt like a will-they won’t-they in the face of defeat but it never came off as distracting or unnecessary.Throw in a crazed group of evangelical zealots who think this invasion is a sign of the rapture and you get a fun blast from the past that is well paced and even better written and I can’t wait to read more from the cheerful goth that is Angela Sylvaine.