Old York… cobbled streets where dreams are made of Synopsis Arcane archivist Harper has always been plagued by dreams of grotesque creatures and bloody deaths. When she bumps into a ghostwalker in the Shambles and has a visceral experience of his execution, she knows it’s a foretelling. Yet fear of the Queen’s Guard stops her […]
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Review: Among the Living by Tim Lebbon
Don’t go into that cave… Fine, ignore me then. Synopsis Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean’s group’s exploitation of rare earth minerals deep […]
Review: Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Synopsis: Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of […]
Anna Dupre’s Top 10 Reads of 2023
The end of 2023 marks the closing of a year that I have dedicated to broadening my literary horizons and pushing myself in my love for reading. On a personal note, there were lots of firsts this year: I wrote my first full review, received my first ARC, and conducted my first author interview. All […]
Review: Merciless Waters by Rae Knowles
There’s worse things than drowning, folks… Synopsis The sea never changes. Neither do Lily and Jaq. Aboard the ship Scylla, there is no future or past. Jaq, her fickle lover Lily, and their all-female crew exist in an endless present. It’s better this way. At least it keeps Lily by Jaq’s side, where she belongs. […]