Roses are red, violets are blue, this book is grim and it’s good for you Synopsis Alderose Mortimer is no stranger to grief. As she roams from one bleak countryside village to another, killing monsters for coin, she’s haunted by the loss of her first love, slain on their wedding day with two puncture wounds […]
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Review: The Fallen Faithful by R.A. Sandpiper
Synopsis: A naive courtesan is hired by a masked man from the House of Pain, to solve a murder connected to her former lover who was cursed to forget her. After Annie, a devotee of the House of Love, leaves the only life she’s ever known to elope with a mortal, she ends up barred […]
Review: Echoes of the Imperium by Nicholas & Olivia Atwater
Synopsis A fallen empire. A goblin airship captain. One big, blasphemous problem. Captain William Blair has taken shady jobs before—what goblin hasn’t? But this shady job has pirates off the port bow and legendary aethermancers knocking at his cabin door. Unfortunately, Wil has sworn an Oath to escort his newest dubious passenger wherever she wants to go… […]
Review: All Her Beautiful Deaths by A. Rushby
Synopsis A gothic tale in two timelines in which the lives of two women intersect through a series of mysterious, eerily beautiful photographs of the dead London, 1865. Minnie has been sent to Culpepper House to work as a maid. She’s been told that the Culpepper twins are odd, and odd they are. Edmund and Edith […]
Review: Killswitch Protocol by M. J. Kuhn
Synopsis In New Avarita, every person is born with a purpose. Once fulfilled, they are eligible for Ascent, a peaceful passing and assumed rebirth on the next plane of existence, celebrated for having left their perfect mark upon the world. At least, that’s what the powers that be want them to believe. When Liv Spencer’s […]
Review: In Their Eyes by Simon F. Godin
Synopsis A gripping slow-burn psychological horror filled with paranoia, suspense, and emotional tension from debut Canadian novelist Simon F. Godin. Gracie Boone’s small-town life has always felt safe and comfortable. She has a doting father, a steady relationship, and a promising future at university. But the illusion of security begins to crumble the moment she […]
Review: The Infinite Extent (Bobiverse #6) by Dennis E. Taylor
Synopsis: BOBIVERSE TO-DO · Determine who built a vast wormhole network–and why · Investigate mysterious, derelict alien spaceship · Crack faster-than-light travel · Help tens of thousands of refugees find a new planet · Confront a new threat from an old enemy · Figure out how to save the known universe from certain destruction So […]
Review: Mercy House by Adam Cesare
Synopsis: Harriet Laurel notices the odour the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. In the early stages of dementia, Harriet has grown to resent her daughter-in-law for not providing grandchildren. Yet as she crosses the threshold, she notices her mind begins […]
Review: The Court of Venus by Bel Banta
Synopsis: Set in a fantasy world inspired by Tudor England and the real astrologers who advised kings, The Court of Venus is Bel Banta’s romantic fantasy debut and a beautifully written historical novel about rival magicians. ‘Our kind has many names. Planetborn. Sorcerer. Witch or wizard. Magician.’ In Alvion, magicians have always ruled beside kings. Blessed at […]
Review: This Crimson Ruin (The Titan’s Wrath Trilogy #2) by Rebecca Thorne
Synopsis: Death might be the only escape. When Sergeant Nix Marr signed up as her ex’s bodyguard for a trip to the domed city of Fall, she doubted she’d return alive. But neither woman could have predicted the cataclysmic event that stranded them both beneath the ocean. Worse, Fall has been completely abandoned, ruins of a once-grand […]
Review: The Demon Star by Jesse Aragon
A rich and dark world full of lore and gods that walk the planet, demons and exorcisms, monsters and lost technology, and a story so tightly paced and gripping you won’t want to put it down.
Review: Star Trek: The Last Starship, Vol. 1 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing
Synopsis: A Galaxy Shattered. A Legend Reborn. A New Frontier Begins. After the cataclysmic Burn brings warp travel to a standstill and shatters centuries of unity, the dream of the United Federation of Planets collapses almost overnight. Worlds are cut off. Civilizations tumble. Chaos fills the void where hope once thrived. Out of this cosmic […]