Synopsis: Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra? Review: There’s often joy to be found in the unexpected. An extra McNugget in your happy meal, a little left over from rent, so you can treat yourself to a […]
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Parallax (Sentient Stars #2) by Amber Toro
Parallax is a fantastic sequel, and it teases exciting things to come. Amber Toro is an author to keep an eye on.
Review: Who Will Find Her? by Ryan Young
Synopsis: It’s been one year since the disappearance of beloved high school track star Melody Anderson. The small town of Hawksboro, North Carolina, has only started to recover from the media frenzy that’s being fueled by a self-serving news anchor. As the case goes eerily cold, her suspected captor, a known predator with a history […]
Review: Never the Roses by Jennifer K. Lambert
Never the Roses is a romantasy which is light on the overarching plot, and instead spends it’s time building up the relationship. The fantasy world is there, but as Oneira has shut herself away from it you only see glimpses and pieces of the world. This really worked for me. It felt like an easy-going read because of this and I think that really worked for this specific romantasy.
TBRCon2025 Highlight: Space Horror: Monsters in Zero Gravity (with S.A. Barnes, Ness Brown Emily Hughes & More)
Every Friday, we’re highlighting a panel from the TBRCon2025 all-virtual SF/F/H convention, looking back on the incredible variety of discussions that we had the honor of hosting.
This week, join moderator/author/editor Emily Hughes and authors S.A. Barnes, Ness Brown, Halo Scot, Chris Hooley and CJ Aggett for a TBRCon2025 panel on “Space Horror: Monsters in Zero Gravity”.
Review: The Scoungers (Vermin of the old Empire) by Thomas J Devens
Synopsis The lords have fallen.It was the war to end all wars.Violence had plagued the Fractured Kingdoms since the fall of the Old Empire. But as the generals and the lords died in the Valley of Torglen, the folk looked beyond their allegiances. Beyond their nations. The bedraggled masses that survived the battle flocked to […]
Review: Battle Mage (The Souls of Wrath #1) by Peter A. Flannery
Synopsis: The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond between battle mage and dragon is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the enemy of humankind. Black dragons are mad. […]
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 […]
Excerpt: Sentient (Ice Plague Wars #2) by Michael Nayak
Blurb Symbiote took readers to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, across ten days of terror, as the crew fought to contain a mysterious and evolving biological threat. In Book Two of the Ice Plague Wars series, Sentient, the survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their […]
Review: Old Too Soon by Brian Bowyer
Synopsis: When Kadence’s father dies, she begins hearing voices in her head. Soon thereafter, she discovers alcohol, which silences the voices, and Kadence becomes an alcoholic. To finance her addiction, she turns to a life of crime. Then she meets Arianne, the girl of her dreams. After she gets locked up, Arianne breaks up with […]
Review: A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper
Synopsis: A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you […]
Cover Reveal: Black Cloaks (Titan Hoppers #4) by Rob J. Hayes
Blurb The Enemies of your enemies… Iro has left the home fleet to join up with the Black Cloaks, eager for the power and the answers they’ve promised him. But danger lurks in every corner deep in the TITAN core, and some revelations are more than he can bear. What if he was never a […]