I found this first entry in the Huntsmen series an excellent start to a hopefully long saga that promises good times, feels, sibling shenanigans, and lots of action. Also, there’s a molosser dog with one upturned and one downward ear as the animal companion and his name is Botheration. Need I say more?
Monsters
Review: A Bleak Remedy (Savage Panacea #1) by D.S. LaLonde
Synopsis: On the shores of the St. Lawrence River there lies a secretive biomedical research facility. Within that facility’s deepest recesses are two vampires. One is a ravenous humanoid bat. A true apex predator. The other appears human but is no less dangerous than its monstrous peer. These vampires have amazing regenerative abilities, enabling them […]
Review: The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
Synopsis Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman. Forged in the fires of the Western Front and reborn in the cafes […]
Review: Beast by Matt Wesolowski
Synopsis Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. Review For those unfamiliar with the Six Stories series, I will start off by saying that this is book 4 of 6. Having also […]
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: Along the Razor’s Edge (The War Eternal Series #1) by Rob J. Hayes
Synopsis The War Eternal is a 5 book completed series. No one escapes the Pit. The war is over. Sixteen-year-old Eskara Helsene was a Sourcerer, a weapon for her empire. But she fought on the wrong side. Now she is a prisoner serving out a life sentence in the mines of the Pit, where there […]
Review: Curse of the Fallen (Fallen Light Series #1) by H.C. Newell
Synopsis Book I of the Fallen Light series. This Child is not the chosen one. She is a demon to be destroyed. Born of magic, Nerana is labeled a demon and forced into hiding by the Order of Saro. Living with a curse that binds her to their leader, Nerana seeks to free herself from […]
Navigating The Flanaverse: A Guide to Mike Flanagan on Netflix
As the dust settles on Mike Flanagan’s newest series The Fall of The House of Usher, so too does the dust settle on his time with Netflix. In December of last year Flanagan announced that he had signed a TV deal with Amazon Studios, and although I am sure there will be plenty of long […]
Review: The Light of a Black Star by C.S. Humble
Synopsis It is 1872. Annie Miller and the valiant members of the Peregrine Estate did all they could in Chicago to try and stop the Society of Prometheus from unleashing their terrible gods—The Nine—into our world. While they managed to save Carson Ptolemy from the occult society’s ritualistic sacrifice, they failed to stop the ritual […]
Review: Callus & Crow by D B Rook (The Wayward World Chronicles #1)
Callus & Crow is one of 2023’s unmissable reads.
REVIEW: Yellow Tape and Coffee by Pat Luther
SYNOPSIS Four intertwining stories. Four points of view of a single large event. Four people from different backgrounds with different ideals. And a secret society of werewolves is unveiled in Portland, Oregon. For four hundred years, they have kept their secret. Some will do anything to reveal it. Others will sacrifice everything to keep it. […]
Review: Once More Into The Dark (A Collection of Horror & Weird Tales) by Lee C. Conley
Synopsis A collection of Horror short fiction and weird tales from the author, Lee C Conley. This collection of short stories blends horror, dark fantasy, and historical fiction, and features tales of subterranean horrors, ancient sunken lands, and strange cults, stories of witch-trials, and terrible sea monsters. Each tale certain to make you shudder as […]