It is a study in many things but also in the bittersweet acceptance that life always changes, if not soon, eventually, and what matters is our drive being strong enough to keep going and to relearn different ways of living with what it may bring us. Even if it’s completely different and new and hard. Don’t know about you dear reader, but I find that a message worth passing on.
Fear For All
Review: Marla by Jonathan Janz
Synopsis: From beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, Marla is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can’t forget. The hardcover edition includes a foiled cover, gorgeous sprayed edges, and an exclusive, never-before-published prequel story. Turn the page—if you dare. Every small town […]
Review: Dark Imperium (Dark Imperium #1, Warhammer 40K) by Guy Haley
Synopsis Book 1 of the Dark Imperium trilogyThe first phase of the Indomitus Crusade is over, and the conquering primarch, Roboute Guilliman, sets his sights on home. The hordes of his traitorous brother, Mortarion, march on Ultramar, and only Guilliman can hope to thwart their schemes with his Primaris Space Marine armies.READ IT BECAUSE Experience […]
Review: Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist
Home Sick is an interesting time to say the least, with Grist’s ability to render atmosphere doing a lot of the heavy lifting but not only. For, even though this is not your typical haunted house – the tagline of the book is after all “The house isn’t haunted. She is” – the claustrophobia is real. Except, instead of the physical walls of a building closing in on you, it is the metaphorical walls of the protagonist’s stream of consciousness-like narration that makes you feel short of breath.
Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
Synopsis: Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It’s the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on one fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground. It will change their lives forever. By the time they leave […]
Review: This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want by Hailey Piper
Synopsis A woman haunted by the disappearance of her sister and best friend thirty years ago uncovers the terrifying urban legend behind the last film they watched together, in this chilling riff on the cursed film subgenre by the Bram Stoker award-winning author of Queen of Teeth. Perfect for fans of Gretchen Felker-Martin and Andrew […]
Review: The Staircase In The Woods by Chuck Wendig
The Staircase In The Woods is an atmospheric, emotionally charged horror thriller through our inner demons made manifest.
Review: The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley
Synopsis A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth Kostova Paris, 1869. The Théâtre Saint-Siméon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black […]
Among the Thorns – Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert
Twin sorceresses. One Prince Charming. Which sister will win out? Ambitious young sorceress Rose of Northbrooke is about to graduate. She’s the only known dream sorcerer of her generation and she’s a remarkable one. No wonder she has Prince Sebastien, one of the most eligible royals of the realm trailing her skirts. But when rumours […]
Review: Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman
Devil Inside shows that sometimes love between two damaged people is poetic and beautiful, but it’s also often destructive, hurtful, and isolating. Either way, it’s also endlessly damn readable!
Review: Incarnate by Alma Katsu
Synopsis: Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds. Dorothy Wagner has spent her whole life wanting nothing more than to be seen. But after failing to make her mark (any mark, really) as an influencer, she takes a job at a company focused on cutting-edge deepfake technology. And there, in secret, she creates her salvation. Isabella: an […]
Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
Synopsis From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It’s the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on […]