Category: Book Reviews
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Be Careful Who You Make Friends With! || The Witching House – by John Everson || Book Review
Angry and alone, Gianna tests urban legend and writes the name Madelyn in blood on the mirror of the Witching House. When the ghost actually answers, she gains an unexpected friend. But soon Gianna learns friendship isn’t what the dead girl wants the most. Madelyn wants revenge for her murder. Can Gianna stop her before…
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What a Fun Concept for Siblings || The Porcelain Sisters – by Daryl Gregory || Book Review
A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant — and literally porcelain — sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. In his newest adventure from the world of Harrison the Monster Detective, Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders)…
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This Must Be the First Book Shop I’d Warn You Away From!! || Steal Me – by Helen Grant || Book Review
Rowan Byrne hasn’t stolen anything for ages—not since she started to straighten her life out after a personal tragedy. But the volume she’s just picked up in the new bookshop in town seems to want her to steal it. The text is very persuasive. There’s a book for everyone in Legends—a book that will encourage…
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Things are About to Get…Wyrd || House of Wyrd – by Maura McHugh || Book Review
Aly Wyrd, famous art provocateur and magician, is missing on the eve of the opening of her visionary project, the Path of Illumination. It falls to her estranged daughter, Pallas Trismegistus Morrigan Aylward, to navigate through dream, memory and arcane mystery to revisit her history with her mother in ’80s London and ’90s Ireland until…
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Liminal Space and the Most Monstrous of Us || Monstrous – by Bryan Smith || Book Review
Accompanied by an unsuspecting target, an aspiring serial killer journeys to a remote mountainous location at the same time as a woman looking to bury evidence of a heinous crime walks the same trail. A sudden unnatural storm transports them to a mist-shrouded field that rolls on for countless miles in all directions. A towering…
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A Perfect Companion to The Silent Companions! || House of Splinters – by Laura Purcell || Book Review
Not every house is a home… Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy…
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Witch – by Iain Rob Wright || Book Review
Deep in Devil’s Ditch lies a woman in chains. Her name is Rose. And something’s very wrong with her… Ashley and Jude are used to being hunted. As teenage outcasts, they know what it means to run. But when a gang of bullies drives them into the woods, they discover something far worse than anything…
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I Don’t Think This is the Life for Me….|| Tradwife – by TC Parker || Book Review
Family. Community. Tradition. Annihilation. Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples slaughtered around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK’s first and only purpose-built Tradwife community. And no suspect ever charged. Writer Gina Lewis wants to know. Her plan: talk to the people who knew the three dead couples…
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I’ll Never Look At a Chalk Drawing the Same Way Again || Book Review || The Chalk Man – by C. J. Tudor
IT WAS ONLY MEANT TO BE A GAME . . . None of us ever agreed on when it started. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body? Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe.…
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Ever Felt Like Just Going…Feral? || Book Review || Feral – by Gemma Amor
Meet Margot. She’s got it all: a loving boyfriend, a roof over her head, her health, a career. But increasingly, she feels like she’s had enough. Enough of the daily grind, enough of corporate life, but most especially, enough of her own self. Whilst Margot’s relationship with her own body has always been painful, she…
