How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates, is a very entertaining meta narrative, chock full of movie references and real-world commentary that click into one endlessly endearing, sassy, and bloody whole. It questions and teases well known tropes while also showing us how, in the heat of the moment, they may be more reasonable than we thought while watching from the comfort of our own homes.
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SPFBO XI Review: The Way We Were Hunters by Brien Feathers
Synopsis The trouble with the Fallen is they look human. The Fallen are the children born affected by the Drakon, otherworldly beasts that arrived on a meteor and devastated Rosya in a decades-long war. Now, as the nation heals and moves forward, a second conflict looms. This time the enemy is not the Drakon, but […]
SPFBO XI Review: Budding Rhythm by CrimCat
Synopsis Thousands of years ago, the five great gods created the world of Pallos. A land of mysticism where mighty beasts and beings struggled to carve out their respective territories, empowered by the System. On this world, a Paladin in service to Xaoc, the god of chaos, struggled and perished. And then woke up as […]
SPFBO XI Review: Children of Nemia by Michael Goe
Synopsis On the eve of Nemia’s Journey of Patronage, fifteen-year-old Van is determined to prove himself by returning home as a blooded member of his tribe–assuming he survives the ordeal. As the chieftain’s son, Van will strive to earn his father’s respect by extending a hand in friendship to Simon, a fast-talking sorcerer from a land […]
Review: Netflix’s Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
Synopsis In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries. Stranger Things When I originally watched, it was new, and it was exploding into the phenomenon it would become all around us. Retro fashion, toys, terms, […]
Review: Undercity: Rebellion by SC Jensen
Synopsis I’m not dead yet, but this isn’t living… They call me the Ghost. I wander the surface of this nameless city, unseen, searching for the sister I lost many years ago. It is a forsaken place, its battle-scarred surface left to burn under a relentless sun.I should have given up. But when I uncover […]
Review: Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald
Synopsis: Come one, come all to the dinosaur circus! Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty […]
Review: Trad Wife by Sarah Langan
Synopsis: Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . . Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a lie. Desperate […]
Review: The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden
Synopsis: Damien Giles hasn’t seen his husband in twelve years. Not since Carlisle left him on their honeymoon. All Damien got was his father-in-law telling him that Carlisle wasn’t coming back. (Twice.) And yet divorce papers never arrived. Now Carlisle’s back in town for his brother’s wedding and keeps crossing Damien’s path. More baffling to […]
Review: Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
Synopsis: I saw the devil in these woods.” Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator—but she is only able to follow her dream because of her father’s reputation as a renowned scientist. Such is the lot in life for a woman in science in 1899. And after his death, she is left without work, prospects, […]
Review: Alien: Cult by Gavin G. Smith
Synopsis An FBI agent on the trail of a brutal serial killer gets caught in the web of a Xenomorph-worshipping religion in this thrilling murder mystery twist on the Alien universe, for fans of Scott Sigler’s Aliens: Phalanx and Alex White’s Cold Forge. In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, […]
Review: My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney
Synopsis: Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t […]