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 […]
Reviews
Review: Under the Dragon Moon (The Belamour Archives 1) by Mawce Hanlin
Synopsis To break the thread of weaver’s fate, those who witness must weave anew…Mael Nguyen doesn’t believe in fate, but he does believe in magic. His entire life revolves around the study of the arcane—spells and rituals, potions and illusions. As far as Mael is concerned, all he needs is a book in one hand and […]
Review: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir
Synopsis: The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a […]
Little Beauty (an Eve Novella) by Mark Jonathan Runte
Synopsis: Cherbourg, Normandy – 1159 Shy Jehanne always lived at the mercy of her sisters’ spite and bitterness, preferring a life with the saints in her father’s library. Cherbourg was home and for her, it was the smaller pleasures of watching the ships in the harbor, searching for her father’s vessels. She might have continued […]
Review: Dark Bloom by Molly Macabre
Pen name accuracy 10/10 Synopsis When a disease runs rampant, turning people into cannibalistic horrors, society comes to a halt. Kate manages to escape the sadistic captivity she has endured and collides with Nick, a Marine haunted by the scars of war. They join forces to navigate a treacherous landscape, battling the undead and hostile […]
Review: Eerie Exhibits by Victoria Williamson
Synopsis Five unnerving tales of the weird and uncanny from award-winning author Victoria Williamson. A room full of screaming butterflies.An unsettling smile on the face of a carved sarcophagus.A painting that draws its viewer into the disturbing past.A stuffed bear that growls in the dead of night.And a shell that whispers more sinister sounds than […]
Review: Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton
Synopsis: What if you wrote a magic computer program? What if that magic computer program started summoning monsters? When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into […]
Review: Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
Synopsis Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay. Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. […]
Review: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
SYNOPSIS In Earth’s not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother. But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora […]
Review: The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn
Synopsis: Isla Hansen, a mother reeling from a devastating loss, is beside herself when a mysteriously orphaned child appears on the outskirts of the Hansens’ secluded Colorado property. Although strange and unexplainable, the child’s presence breathes new life into Isla. But as the child settles in, Isla’s husband, Luke, and their five children notice peculiarities […]
Review: Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Siegel Spratford
Synopsis: For twenty-five years, Becky Siegel Spratford has worked as a librarian in Reader Advisory, training library workers all over the world on how to engage their patrons and readers, and to use her place as a horror expert and critic to get the word out to others; to bring even more readers into the […]
Review: The Christmas Demon by J.Z. Pitts
Synopsis: Trapped by a snowstorm deep in the Bavarian Alps, Al and Mallory are already unraveling. Addiction. Resentment. Loss.Only one thing keeps them together: their six-year-old daughter, Sadie. Then the chains begin to rattle.Something ancient has awakened in the forest—and it has targeted them. Is this punishment? Is it penance? As the storm worsens and […]