Category: Book Reviews
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The Captivating Flames of Madness – by Jeff Parsons – Book Review
This book’s title comes from the reality that – like a moth to the flame – we’re all just one event, mishap, or decision away from things that could change our lives forever. What would you do if fate led you astray into a grim world where you encountered vengeful ghosts, homicidal maniacs, ancient gods,…
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The Salt Grows Heavy – by Cassandra Khaw – Book Review
After the murder of her husband and the fall of his empire, a mermaid and her plague doctor companion escape into the wilderness. Deep in the woods, they stumble across a village where children hunt each other for sport, sacrificing one of their own at the behest of three surgeons they call “the saints.” These…
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30 Days of Night: Fear of the Dark – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
This is an all-new original novel based on the suspenseful and terrifying world of the comic book mythos 30 Days of Night, one of the most acclaimed horror sagas in recent years – an innovative and nationally bestselling book expansion of a nightmarish narrative that explores the nature of ancient evil existing – and thriving…
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The Root Witch – by Debra Castaneda – Book Review
A beautiful forest. A terrifying legend. It’s 1986. Two strangers, hundreds of miles apart, grapple with disturbing incidents in a one-of-a-kind quaking aspen forest. Knox is a new Forest Service ranger assigned to a vast, remote territory in Utah. Sandy is a producer fighting for her place in a tough TV newsroom. Both have heard…
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Delicate Condition – by Danielle Valentine – Book Review (and also a rant)
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments are moved without her knowledge. She’s…
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The Devil Device – by Dave Jeffery – Book Review
The coastal town of Dorsal Finn is no stranger to the fantastic and the bizarre. A dark heart beats beneath its cobblestone skin and the rhythm is a beacon for all things devious and evil. Only its reluctant sentinel, Beatrice Beecham, keeps the town free from the terrible entities that it attracts. Now Dorsal Finn…
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Black City Skyline and Darker Horizons – by Barry Lee Dejasu – Book Review
Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! Today I’m reviewing a short story collection, and a first read from this particular author. I read A LOT of short story collections, both from my own personal TBR and from review requests. I get so many requests to review short story collections, you wouldn’t believe. I guess it’s a…
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The Laughing Policeman – by Elizabeth J. Brown – Book Review
A blood debt gone wrong. A demon unleashed. Thirty-four years ago, a supernatural horror was summoned into the world, leaving nothing but mutilated corpses in its wake… Until the day the trail went cold. Now it’s back, and the fate of a young Traveller girl and her mother hang in the balance. Their only hope…
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The Little Exorcist – by Alys Daddi – Book Review
Molly’s dad is a practical joker, a proper wind-up merchant, his sense of humour holds no bounds and when, what he thinks is a trick at his expense backfires he is left feeling a little unusual. His silliness stoops to new and more juvenile levels but strangely he has no memory of his bad behaviour.…
