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 …
“‘Kabahiko is an amazing hippo. People say that if you touch the area of his body that you want to make better on yours, he’ll provide a cure,’” (Aoyama 13). Multiple residents at the new Advance Hill condominium find themselves at the children’s playground Hinode Park where an old hippo ride named Kabahiko can apparently …
“He would die for her, and he would kill for her. More importantly, he will live for her,” (Hazelwood). Serena Paris is the first Human-Were known to the world. Orphaned and without a pack, Serena thought that her existence might have repaired the rift between Humans, Weres, and Vampyres but if anything it’s only put …
“‘My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise we are the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos,’” (Meloy 380). After her little …
“‘Bear…I love you. Pull my head off,” (Engel 90). Lou works a quiet, easy life in the archives of the Historical Institute, but when her boss offers her the chance to catalogue the library of an eccentric nineteeth-century colonel in northern Ontario, she jumps at the chance. But when Lou gets there she is shocked to …
“You can be entranced by an idea…and at a certain point you can no longer see the edges of it…But at the same time, it’s important to be able to come out the other side, you have to be able to come up for air. Otherwise, you won’t survive,” (Kitamura 66). A successful actress meets a …
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 world is unfair to women. That’s why women need other women to teach them how to survive,” (Choi). In 1924, Kim Na-Young lives a quiet life in the village of Daegeori where she cares for her sick mother and tends to her …
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 …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “The land would always return to its feral character; the trick is to place your bets on when and how. But the bust is inevitable. As sure as the sun fades with the silvering of the day,” (Welsh 84). As the Klondike Gold Rush …
Sarah O'Connor 