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Review: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Wow. This is one of my favorite books of the year, and probably ever. The scientific aspect of it was so neat to me and I want to try more books like this so if you know of any, please let me know. Synopsis New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned […]
Review: You Weren’t Meant To Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Synopsis: Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse. Crane is grateful. Among his hive’s followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to […]
Review: The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson
Synopsis: A woman who can’t remember her death.On an eerily quiet island off the coast of Ireland, a woman with no memory claws her way out of her grave and back to life. But not everyone welcomes the return of Mara Fitch. An island with a terrible secret.Inishbannock. Where strange misshapen figures watch from the […]
Review: King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Synopsis: Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library. Trapped and […]
Review: Demon Song by Kelsea Yu
Synopsis: Places like this have a history. Desires. And this one is famished. Megan and her mom are on the run after narrowly escaping the clutches of an abusive man who dragged them from Portland to Beijing. With few options, Megan’s mom turns to an old friend who offers them room and board in Huihuang […]
Review: Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
Synopsis Girl in the Creek is a pulse-pounding story about the horrors growing all around us, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher. Buried secrets only spread. Erin’s brother Bryan has been missing for five years. It was as if he simply walked into the forests of the Pacific Northwest and vanished. Determined to […]
Review: Fiend by Alma Katsu
Synopsis: Some families have skeletons in their closets. This one has a demon in its boardroom. When Maris Berisha was nine years old, she heard something scratching at the walls of her family’s penthouse. It felt like something malevolent was there, watching them. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the […]
Review: The Film You Are About To See by Haley Newlin
Synopsis: It’s 1959 in a rural Indiana town, and the local drive-in is hosting their first-ever Dusk Til Dawn Spooktacular! And they’ve got a Percepto surprise in store for the audience, complete with vomit bags, nurses on staff, and a hearse parked just beneath the monsters onscreen. But June has a strange sense about things. […]
Review: Good Boy by Neil McRobert
Synopsis: After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small Northern town, a woman spies from her window a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance. However, when she confronts him, the man’s true purpose is far more chilling than she could have imagined and the history of the […]
Review: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Synopsis Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality. A USA Today bestseller!ABA Indie Bookseller bestseller! “Get your claws into this one, horror fiends. It’s terrific. . . . Sink your teeth into a classic.”―Stephen King “A crazy-good, balls-to-the-wall horror […]
Review: Heavy Oceans by Tyler Jones
Synopsis Struggling with the pressures of being a new father and the weight of regrets, Jamie Fletcher travels to Hawaii hoping to connect with his estranged brother, Eric. After a shocking act of violence that ends with corpses in an alley, the brothers end up on a fishing boat, along with the captain and his […]