Category: Book Reviews
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Bad Things Happen Here – by Mark Morris || Book Review
In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to centre around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that one of the six commits suicide, an act…
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Put Down the Rolling Pin! || Trad Wife – by Sarah Langan || Book Review
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a lie. Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan…
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Build Your Own Monster – by Bryn Fortey & Johnny Mains || Book Review
Dedicated to the memory of Bryn Fortey (1937–2021) and with all proceeds going to Brecon Jazz charity, Build Your Own Monster!!! Four Horror Yarns by Bryn Fortey and Johnny Mains brings together the authors’ collective oeuvre, two previously published tales and two unpublished. Build Your Own Monster!!! Four Horror Yarns simply shows two authors, who loved each other…
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Disturbingly Relatable || Book Review || Disturbance – by Jenna Clake
Propulsive and wry, this razor-sharp debut is perfect for fans of Boy Parts and My Year of Rest and Relaxation explores all the ways that relationships and trauma can haunt our lives. As the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman spies on her teenage neighbour, transfixed by what looks like an occult ritual to…
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Maybe the Best Yet from C.C. Adams || Where the Roaches Are || Book Review
A healthy diet. Exercise. Sleep. Things to arm yourself with to promote good health and longevity. But no one goes through life unscathed when accidents, sickness and disease can happen. Still, you have the chance to fight back with treatment, medicine and rest. And with these things on your side, the odds of winning are…
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Exccuuuuse Me?! || Little Red Death – by A. K. Benedict || Book Review
ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU’VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE… DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press…
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It Looks SPECTACULAR! || Without Walls – by Tim Lebbon and Daniele Serra || Book Review
Jasmine lives alone in the house. It’s her whole world. It caters for her every need. The doors are locked, but that doesn’t matter, because there’s nothing outside. One day, on the staircase, she meets another little girl who thinks the same. And Cassia will change her life forever. A haunted house . . .…
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me About This Book??!! || Boys in the Valley – by Philip Fracassi || Book Review
The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, Boys in the Valley is a chilling folk horror set in a remote orphanage in turn of the century Pennsylvania. St. Vincent’s Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and…
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Adrian Baldwin is Unique || Stanley McLoud Must Die! || Book Review
Death can be a real downer. Just ask Stanley McCloud. The ancient and inveterate gambler has just found out he hasn’t long to live. Refusing to believe his prognosis, though, Stan places a massive bet that he will reach his next birthday. Surely, his run of bad luck can’t last! Unfortunately for Stan the independent…
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I Am SO Entertained || Book Review || Trad Wife – by Saratoga Schaefer
Every trad wife needs a baby. Camille will get one – no matter the cost. Camille lives to embody the perfect traditional wife―cooking, cleaning, homesteading, and documenting it all for her followers. But without a baby, her image―and her following―feels incomplete. As Camille’s husband begins to withdraw and his attention in her waning, Camille’s desperation…
