Category: Book Reviews
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In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Scream…About Zombies || Book Review || ‘The Darkness Within’ by Sam Stone
ZOMBIES ON A SPACESHIP! Chief Engineer Madison Whitehawk suspects foul play when a series of small anomalies occur aboard the ark ship Freedom. But Madison’s fears are nothing compared to the impending disaster heading their way. As the team of scientists, engineers and crew take their precious colonist cargo towards New Earth a deadly parasite…
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Dead Red and Razor – by Tim Lebbon || Book Review
NYT-bestselling author Tim Lebbon joins Bad Hand Books with a new crime novella! Haunted by the voice of her dead lover, assassin “Dead” Red Virgilio is out for vengeance against former colleague, “Razor” Bill McClintock. And she’s driving into the heart of the Nevada desert to get it. But others who are just as dangerous…
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Advance Review || Beautiful, Once – by Mia Dalia || Oooooh boy, I LOVE this!
A dark dystopian survival thriller set on a secluded island paradise. From acclaimed author Mia Dalia comes a propulsive, character-driven horror novel that’s a chilling blend of high-tech utopia, isolation, and catastrophic consequences. When a controversial tech billionaire retreats from society, he constructs a private island designed to be the ultimate controlled experiment: a hand-selected…
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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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