Synopsis: Poppy Stringer was born to be a star. An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dealing dead bodies across Palm Springs. When her hero, the flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar Eddie Michaels, unexpectedly dies, Poppy gets a call to retrieve his body from the medical […]
Body Horror
Review: Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle
Synopsis From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice. Poppy Stringer was born to be a star. An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dealing dead bodies across Palm Springs. When her hero, the flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar Eddie Michaels, unexpectedly […]
Review: Worry Box by Chris Panatier
Synopsis:The Martins need a new home for their growing family. For Alison, Nathan, daughter Dru, and foster child Lailah, it’s love at first sight when they see the house in Tumbling Hills. It even has a cozy attic, which is great for Lailah: she needs a quiet place to be alone when her intrusive thoughts […]
Review: Headlights by CJ Leede
Synopsis: Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it’s happening again. Seemingly innocent people […]
Review: Headlights by CJ Leede
Synopsis Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t. Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four […]
Review: Love Shots by Travis M. Riddle
Synopsis They’re dying for a chance at love. America’s #1 dating show, Love Shots, gathers young, sexy singles in a tropical villa to compete in cheeky challenges, find love, and win a huge cash prize—with no small amount of drama. Things go off-script when a recently ejected competitor reappears in the villa. But she isn’t the […]
Review: Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
Going into Honeysuckle I had no idea how much I would love it. The synopsis sounded like something I would be into, but the publishers description of ‘feminist Frankenstein’ had me nervous. However, I’m very very happy to report that this might be one of my favourite books of the year so far. It’s dark, haunting and was filled with a slow-burn dread that had me racing through the pages hoping the characters would realise what I had.
Review: The Dorians by Nick Cutter
Synopsis The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring […]
Review: Resident Evil: Requiem
RESIDENT EVIL: REQUIEM is the ninth entry in the main series of Resident Evil, one of the longest-lasting series in video games and the popularizer of the survival horror genre. There’s been dozens of other spin off games but the main series has always been a mixture of both horror as well as action. Sometimes […]
Review: Youthjuice by E.K Sathue
Synopsis: A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood and named after the Greek goddess of youth, it’s clear something is […]
Review: Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey
Synopsis: Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family—to belong to someone. That’s why she’s going to Kindred Cove for the annual Salt Festival held by the secluded community that lives there. They promise that healing is possible. They promise that transformation is inevitable. There is no grief […]
Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Should I begin from the ambitious and chaotic theological sangria that Sullivan enriches his plot with in such a way that for all intents and purposes should not work and yet it somehow does gloriously?