Synopsis: Fear – arguably humanity’s strongest emotion – is both a blessing and a curse. It hinders some, while it fuels others, but without it, our species would not have survived hundreds of thousands of years. However it might affect you, you’ve felt fear. We all have. Within this book, you’ll come face to face […]
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Review: Overgrowth by Mira Grant
Synopsis Day of the Triffids meets Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Cuckoo.This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she […]
Review: Zombie Billionaire (Creature Quest Series Book 2) by Nick Sullivan
Synopsis Action, adventure, horror, comedy… Zombie Billionaire has it all. The long-awaited sequel to Zombie Bigfoot is here! You know those series books that say “This book is a standalone?” This one isn’t. Zombie Billionaire picks up directly from where Zombie Bigfoot left off. If you haven’t read “ZBF,” do yourself a favor: get it, read it, and come on back. […]
Review: What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman
Synopsis: After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. It’s there that she connects with old high school […]
Review: Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen
Not for the faint of heart, Blood on Her Tongue claws its way into you and doesn’t let go till the extremely satisfying ending, because I support women’s rights but boy do I support women’s wrongs in such contexts. You might feel like you should be looking away at times while being utterly unable to do so.
Review: Zombie Bigfoot (Creature Quest Series Book 1) by Nick Sullivan
Summary The truth is out there… and it will eat your face. “Bigfoot is real.” That’s what Sarah’s father told her before his academic disgrace and untimely death. Now, primatologist Dr. Sarah Bishop is eager to restore her father’s good name. Survival show host Russ Cloud is just as eager to boost his plummeting ratings. […]
Review: A Fold to Extinction by S.S. Fitzgerald
Synopsis: We assume extinction level events are cataclysmic events, but what if they were microscopic, like our history teaches us? To the rest of the world, a random tsunami is but one disaster among other events to speculate over. Unbeknownst to most of the world, the disaster is but a single ripple caused by a […]
Review: Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman
Synopsis: To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: ‘Can I go inside your heart?’ When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and […]
Review: Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Synopsis: During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and […]
Review: Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
Synopsis Midwestern Mayhem! Remember the ’90s? Well…the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn’t, and they’re living in the year 1997. That’s because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town’s trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it’s up to nineteen-year-old Realene and […]
Review: The Feeding by Anthony Ryan
Parts I Am Legend, parts The Last of Us, and with perhaps a certain whiff of Fallout or Mad Max-esque fortified settlements, (just to name drop a few IPs in there for the vibes for ya) The Feeding stands on its own two feet as a brand-new entry among the ranks of post apocalypse without any of the tired clichés but with all of the beloved tropes you want to find in this subgenre. And bear in mind, this is not a zombie book. Not quite.
Review: Cicada by Tanya Pell
Synopsis: “The modern day Goosebumps for adults.” –Horror Obsessive Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can’t decide what’s worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she’s starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won’t let them leave. Review: […]