Category: Book Reviews
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Don’t Get On the Wrong Side Of This Kid…|| ‘The Dwimfolk’ by James Brogden || Book Review
“They are, as far as I can tell, unfixed beings—changeable, shaped by the thoughts or feelings of people who live close to thin places like the Trod, and the way that we can make fixed forms. We take ore and heat it and hammer it and all of a sudden it’s a gold ring. We…
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Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories || Advanced Book Review || Elizabeth Broadbent is Awesome
Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as…
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Advance Book Review || Well…This is Squirmy! || ‘Crawl Space’ by Steve Toase
While recording abandoned vacuum postal systems in a small German city for the Durchsickern Institute, Rachael and Ben make a discovery that should be impossible. What at first seems like a measuring error reveals the dangerous and disturbing Crawl Space. Once they enter the Crawl Space, will Rachael and Ben make it out again in…
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Pretty Lovely, Considering the Word ‘Cannibals’ is in the Title || The Society of Vegetarian Cannibals || Book Review
Welcome to the Downlands, the last safe haven in a dying world. Even as the outside world remains poisoned and the population stagnates, purity runs deep here. Every person is born whole and complete. Every bite of food, manufactured from its base chemicals, is a perfect recreation of flavours from better times. And every one…
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Catherine Cavendish Spooks Us All With A New Book! || Matilda’s Retreat || Book Review
The house kept its secrets – until someone disturbed it Alone and isolated on a windswept moor, the centuries’ old building had seen its fair share of owners and more than its quota of dark legends when Lynn Schofield and her husband visited their friends there. From the moment they cross the threshold, it’s clear…
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Advance Review: Ghosts of Smoke and Flame || by Richard Dansky
Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean things get easier… Charlie and Naomi Oates had the perfect life with their daughter Jessica – until their house burned down with them inside. Now Charlie and Jessica find themselves trapped in the family home as ghosts, while Naomi rejects Heaven because she doesn’t want to be there alone.…
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I’d NEVER Go There. Buuut I Do Love a Good Theme… || Motel Styx || Book Review
Tucked away in the Chihuahuan Desert lies a motel unlike any other… Fuelled by online trends, a shift in the American zeitgeist has led to the instatement of the Lazarus Act, legalizing the ‘recreational use’ of human corpses. Ellis Mercer, recently bereaved, embarks on a secret mission to America’s first ‘necrotel’ to recover his wife’s…
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Not So Sure I’d Want These Visions…! || Visions of Grace, by Alison Littlewood || Book Review
Katie is almost six. She’s very much looking forward to her birthday party, with her mum Leanne and sister Chloe and of course her very best friend, JoJo. Grace has no daughter, no mum, no family, but she loves her friends next door, perhaps especially Katie, since she has no child of her own. It’s…
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I Guess Not All Those Table-Top Gamers Are Wholesome…|| Roll for Initiative, by Lesley A. Camphouse|| Book Review
When Gemma moves across the country, she’s thrilled to be accepted in a group to play her favorite TTRPG. The group is excited, too. Then, in one session, one of the members takes it too far, becoming that guy. However, the game master silences Gemma when she stops the game, telling her not to ruin the fun…
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Is Age Affecting My Memory, Or Is It Something More Sinister?! || ‘The Memory Shades’ by David Watkins || Book Review
A brave new world…Jon is being used as slave labour on a distant planet. The memory of his crimes has been wiped to help keep him compliant. But Jon has visions of a dead woman with horrific wounds. Who is she? Why is she haunting his thoughts?Hollie was against the wiping of prisoners’ memories and…
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