The Girl of Nightmares

"Instead I kiss her, one time, and try to tell her in that single gesture everything that she'll forget as soon as she turns away. I tell her I love her. I tell her I'll miss her. And then I let her go." -Girl of Nightmares, Kendare Blake

     I love the cover just as how I loved ADiB's cover. And the love for the cover has nothing to do with the review below. 

Pages to Scenes

Just as the title suggests, this post is about 5 movies which are book adaptations.

Book-to-movie adaptations aren't the best thing there is in the whole of a book junkie's life. Most of the time, the sentence "the book was better" is the best way to describe one's feelings about a movie adaptation of a certain book. I've certainly had times I felt that way but here are 5 books to movies that I like talking about in 4 different categories.

Book = Movie (I loved the book, and I loved the movie just the same.)

source: pinterest.com

Pride and Prejudice(2005)

A lot of people have mentioned about the 1996 version being better than this. I have yet to watch that adaptation but this version has captured my heart just as the book. Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden melted me the moment they were portraying the timeless characters. Not only were the actors great and astounding in their portrayals, but the setting was very much captured properly. The scenes felt very Regency era, and I think to feel like being able to go back to that time is really a beautiful feeling to have.

Anna Dressed in Blood

I decided to spend the first half of Christmas Vacation watching Disney’s Frozen, buying gifts for my parents and reading this horror-gore-romance book called Anna Dressed in Blood. It’s not something that will keep you squealing because of some unbalance between the romance and the action of the story, but it would haunt you with the horror it has to offer.


I found this book about a year ago and even if I was so eager to buy it, budget was always against the odds so when my kris kringle gift came, I literally hugged my partner upon opening the wrapped gift and squealed.

It almost kept me up at night just like how 13RW kept me up when I read it. It’s horror and that genre isn’t really the type you want to be reading during the Christmas season. The images it could let you form in your head will send you to thinking what the book actually contains: a haunted mansion, a girl dressed in a white dress dripping red in blood, and other things that could send you nightmares.

I hate horror stuff (especially movies lol) but I loved this book! The story was able to touch and tackle the things you would ask as the story begins, and it ends with a good cliffhanger.

I think what made me read this book is that it has an odd pairing. Ghost killer and Ghost isn’t really the kind of pairing we usually see. I was curious on how it would turn out that made me read this book.

It doesn’t bring me nightmares, so don’t hesitate to read this book :)