Category: Book Reviews
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This Town Died With You – by A.J. Spencer – Book Review
This is mostly a non-spoiler review but I will be discussing a couple of details in the story. Without context, I don’t think I’ll be spoiling anything too much but if you want to completely avoid the risk then just come back to this review after you’ve read the book. Slacker friends Justin and Angus…
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Between the Teeth of Charon – by Grant Longstaff – Book Review
Hey fellow 9th circle dwellers. This is a non-spoiler review (yay). After Jack’s wife passes away he is asked by their friend, Ellen, to fulfill a promise his wife made a long time ago. Reluctantly, Jack agrees and, along with Ellen and her granddaughter Dani, the three return to Hethpool Grange – a forgotten hospital…
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Witch Ever Way You Go – by Robert Herold – Book Review
This is a non-spoiler review. When an ill-fated graduate student and his girlfriend are lured into a terrifying world of witchcraft and murder, they become targets for human sacrifice. Is there a chance they can escape a bloodthirsty coven of witches and certain death until the curse is lifted? A spellbinding story of modern horror.…
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A Dream of Demons (Guy Fawkes: Demon Hunter 2) – by Benjamin Langley – Book Review
Hi Kids! I know we said we’re only reviewing novellas during Novella November, but I told a wee fib. It’s Nov 5th – Bonfire Night in the UK – so what better day to release our review of a Guy Fawkes novel?… and on this… the day of its release, no less. A Dream of…
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The Eater of Gods – by Dan Franklin – Book Review
Hi fellow 9th circle dwellers. I’ll be as vague as I can with the particulars, but there will be light spoilers ahead. Book TW: Rape (mentioned, not depicted) Nothing really dies if it’s remembered, his wife had told him. In the dying village of Al Tarfuk, lost among the war-stained dunes of eastern Libya, professor…
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We Haunt These Woods – by Holley Cornetto – Book Review (novella)
Hey everyone! This is a non-spoiler review. Book TW: self-harm, suicide Nate Holbrook had put his past behind him. When his friends went missing all those years ago at Lake Swart, it had been nothing more than a tragic mystery. No matter what stories they’d told each other about the “Forest Man,” there was no…
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The Last Storm – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
This is a non-spoiler review. The author didn’t request a review, but I had to squeeze a mini-post in about it anyway because it’s a wonderful book. Struck by famine and drought, large swathes of North America are now known as the Desert. Set against this mythic and vast backdrop, The Last Storm is a…
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Comic Book Review – SICK ‘N TWISTED by Fright Unseen
The first thing I want to say about this comic is…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. All three of us read it, and I’m the one who volunteered to review it because Goat Leader said, and I quote, “it’s not really my cup of tea”, and Jolly Goat was so offended by this comic that they’re actually angry. Jolly…
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The Exeter Incident – by David Watkins – Book Review
This is a non-spoiler review, so frolic freely. A CITY IN THE GRIP OF TERRORAs a series of gruesome murders are discovered in Exeter. Detective Inspectors Danni Brent and John Carter begin to suspect the killer may not be human. Their investigation is only a few hours old when they also realise the murderer can’t…
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Worse Than Dead – by Cal Brett – Book Review
Fair warning – spoilers ahead. Trigger warning: the story contains sexual assualt (including R), and will be discussed in this review. WORSE THAN DEAD is a zombie apocalypse tale about Kelly and her brother-in-law, Robbie, trying to survive in a zombie-infested world. There’s a baddie that might or might not reappear, some awesome survivors that…