Category: Book Reviews
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The Harvest – by Alex Hunter
Something is coming for the children. Tim Waverly, a young teacher, escapes London’s spiralling housing costs by becoming a live-in caretaker at an abandoned orphanage. But his arrival triggers a series of frightening events. An ancient evil has awakened. A new Harvest has begun. As Tim and those around him become engulfed in a dark…
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The Historian – by Elizabeth Kostova
Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the…
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Enigma Exposed – by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke
Pinto, Mags and Sorensen, attempting to trace the whereabouts of Pinto’s rebel relative, Gregor, embark on a perilous journey across the face of the planet, pursued by Enforcers, attacked by aliens, and meeting a collection of strange humans. What they learn on the outside will make them question everything they thought true, as revelation follows…
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Scorpion Girl – by Janeen Webb
Dark bleatings, my sting-tailed tribe! Today, I’m talking about a book that will seem like an odd choice for me because *gasp* it’s not quite horror, but I absolutely LOVED it. We all have our demons. In Scorpion Girl, women of all ages face theirs. From battlefields to bedrooms, in these stories nothing is what it…
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Myrrh – by Polly Hall
Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she’s done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. Cayenne is trapped…
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The Ravening – by Daniel Church
Jenna’s life has always been a fight. From the traumatic and mysterious loss of her mother on a dark woodland road when she was fifteen, to the abusive and controlling boyfriend she’s recently escaped, she has learned that trust hurts you in the end. Now Jenna’s found what she hopes is happiness with her new…
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Unquiet Waters – by Thana Niveau
Dark bleatings, my unquiet tribe! I’m here to absolutely rave about Thana Niveau’s Unquiet Waters today, because it’s – hands down – one of the best collections I’ve ever read, and I’m obsessed with these stories. To Drown the World EXCELLENT!! Such a compelling story. A guy grows up loving his sister, though he finds…
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Broken on the Inside – by Phil Sloman
Dark bleatings, my gorgeous tribe! I’m here to talk about another book in the Shadows collection from Black Shuck Books today, and I’m excited about it. Phil Sloman is, in my humble opinion, an excellent short story writer. All the books in this collection are themed by the individual authors, so I assumed going in…
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Roth-Steyr – by Simon Bestwick
You never know which ideas will stick in your mind, let alone where they’ll go. Roth-Steyr began with an interest in the odd designs and names of early automatic pistols, and the decision to use one of them as a story title. What started out as an oddball short piece became a much longer and…
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Soulless Lonesome – by Dan Shrader
January 1984. Benjamin’s business is on the brink of collapse just weeks after a close friend has gone missing. Is there a connection between the two? Desperate, he turns to a powerful and secretive group for help. An unusual agreement is struck, sealed not only with ink but also with a promise of one’s soul.…
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