“In my experience, you couldn’t truly understand the secrets of a house without understanding the people living there first,” (Uketsu 19). After the success of his last book, horror writer Uketsu has been getting inquiries from fans about their own strange buildings and if he might take a look at the floor plans to see if …
“I was going to get myself eaten. I could tell. It was just one of those days,” (Herman 15). There is a threat against Princess Melilot’s life, but she’s used to it. With a scary sorceress for a stepmother that makes Melilot and her magically superior stepsisters go on more and more dangerous quests, a threat …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “You wished for revenge. She heard you. SHE HEARD YOU. Do you understand? SHE! HEARD! YOU!” (Smith 11). After her Sister-Cousin dies on the Highway of Tears, a young Indigenous woman embarks on a journey with her na̱xnox to find the killer and …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242). After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “The Rites simply emerged in his thoughts, self-evident, as if he’d only forgotten them until now. The Rites he must follow to protect humankind from unspeakable suffering,” (Kliewer). Macy Mullins doesn’t know why the caretaking job ad caught her eye, but jobless and struggling to provide …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before. I’m not …
“No matter what, you will always be loved. You cannot mess up so badly that you will not be loved,” (Anders 161) Twenty-something Jamie is working on her PhD dissertation, in a strong relationship with their partner Ro, processing their generational trauma, and is a practicing witch. She has a fraught relationship with her mother, Serena, …
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. Darrin Doyle’s short story collection The Dark Will End The Dark features an array of strange and horrifying stories. Doyle does an excellent job of creating tension, especially the slow build of it to create feelings of dread and horror. There are many …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Would it be like that with her? When she died, would her loved ones be told to move on?…She wondered this for weeks. She wondered if this was why people worshipped God, why she herself was attracted to that devotion. God the eternal, …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “The Collective can be a powerful force. Perhaps together you’ll make the word flesh. Tap the Wound and bring it to vivid life. Making something beautiful is, after all, the best revenge,” (Awad). Samantha Heather Mackey has just published her debut novel. Living …
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